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All true wealth is biological.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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
Biological
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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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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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And this was your friend? Cordelia raised her eyebrows. Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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It was suicide, wasn't it? In an involuntary sort of way, said Vorob'yev. These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate. Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw? murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. Exactly, my lord.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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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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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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