Lois McMaster Quotes
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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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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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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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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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Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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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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Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
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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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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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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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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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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.