Lois McMaster Quotes
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Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.
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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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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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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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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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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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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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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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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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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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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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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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My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
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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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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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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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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.