Lois McMaster Quotes
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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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'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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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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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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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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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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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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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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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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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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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
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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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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.