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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

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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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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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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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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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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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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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Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
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It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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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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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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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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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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