Lois McMaster Quotes
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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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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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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 the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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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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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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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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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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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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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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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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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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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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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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All true wealth is biological.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.