Lois McMaster Quotes
Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.
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I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
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Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.
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My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
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Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.
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I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.
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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
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We may deny the existence of ethnonationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse.
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I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.
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Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
