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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge? Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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All true wealth is biological.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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