Lois McMaster Quotes
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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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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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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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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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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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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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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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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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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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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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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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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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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
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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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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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All true wealth is biological.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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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.