QUOTES by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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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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Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.
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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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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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One step at a time,” Vorkosigan returned grimly, “I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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One step at a time,” Vorkosigan returned grimly, “I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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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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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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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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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
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It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
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Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.
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Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
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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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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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I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.
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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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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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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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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
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