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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
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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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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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