Lois McMaster Quotes
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Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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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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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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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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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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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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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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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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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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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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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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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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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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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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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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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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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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
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All true wealth is biological.