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Honor is what you know about yourself.

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
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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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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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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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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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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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.
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When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, He didn't hit me.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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