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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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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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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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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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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
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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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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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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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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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Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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