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What an obituary. When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me.”. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward. View quote
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Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won't shoot your foot off. View quote
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are. View quote
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. View quote
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. View quote
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You try to give away what you want yourself. View quote
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me. View quote
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. View quote
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I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose...though not always what I pleased. View quote
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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
I don't know. 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. View quote
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. View quote
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I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction. View quote
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. View quote
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded. View quote
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. View quote
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me. View quote
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I don't write stories to tell readers what to think, or even tell them what I think; I write stories to show me what I think. Writing is always a journey of discovery that way, as suspenseful for me as I hope it will be for the audience. View quote
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Second sight is redundant to reason anyway. View quote
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. View quote
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. View quote
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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission. View quote
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure. View quote
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