Lois McMaster Quotes
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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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Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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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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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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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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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard
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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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Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
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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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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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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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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.