Lois McMaster Quotes
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
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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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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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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.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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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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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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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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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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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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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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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All true wealth is biological.
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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
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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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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.
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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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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.