Lois McMaster Quotes
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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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Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
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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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Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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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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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
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An honor is not diminished for being shared.
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Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
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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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Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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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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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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There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
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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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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.