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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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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.
Lois McMaster
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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster -
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Lois McMaster -
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.
Lois McMaster -
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster -
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
Lois McMaster
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Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster -
The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
Lois McMaster -
Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
Lois McMaster -
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
Lois McMaster
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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
Lois McMaster -
If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
Lois McMaster -
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
Lois McMaster -
I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
Lois McMaster -
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
Lois McMaster -
Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
Lois McMaster
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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
Lois McMaster -
What you are is a question only you can answer.
Lois McMaster -
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Lois McMaster -
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
Lois McMaster