Lois McMaster Quotes
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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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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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to 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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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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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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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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There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.
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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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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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All true wealth is biological.