Lois McMaster Quotes
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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
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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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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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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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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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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.
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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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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.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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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.
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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
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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.