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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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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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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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