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Lois McMaster Bujold
 
Date of birth: 02 November 1949
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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I was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1949. I graduated from Upper Arlington High School in 1967, and attended the Ohio State University from 1968 to 1972. I have two children, Anne, born in 1979, and Paul, born in 1981. We resided in Marion, Ohio, from 1980 to 1995, and moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1995.

I've been a voracious reader all my life, beginning with a passion for horse stories in grade school. I began r .... (More...)
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" Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. "

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" Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. "

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" Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. "

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" But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? "

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" Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. "

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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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" Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance. "

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" My home is not a place, it is people. "

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" Our children change us... whether they live or not. "

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" Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win. "

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" If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way. "

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" The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives. "

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" His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. "

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" How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? "

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" I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose&though not always what I pleased. "

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