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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
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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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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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