Lois McMaster Quotes
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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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.
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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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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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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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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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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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Koudelka looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" Cordelia met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
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In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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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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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
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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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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.