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• Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

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  Suicidal, Luxury, Glory

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.359, Baen Books

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• Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.

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  Wikipedia, Dangerous

  "The Speculator". Interview with Sarah T. Williams, www.startribune.com. April 28, 2008.

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• From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

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  Gold, Doe, Next

  "The Vorkosigan Companion". Book by John Helfers and Lillian Stewart Carl, 2008.

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• If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

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  Motivational, Doors, People

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

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  Echoes, Doe, Repeats

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2010). “Cryoburn”, p.116, gfdg hfdhdg

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• There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

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  Victory, Survivor, Massacres

  "Ethan of Athos". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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• I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

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  Trying, Littles, Know Thyself

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• A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.

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  Doe, Height, Faces

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.

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  Love, Father, Doors

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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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  Men, Events, Young

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.69, Baen Books

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• Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

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  People, Argument, Killing

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.211, Baen Books

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• Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

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  Stupid, Ignorance, Feelings

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• One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

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  Feet, Age, Way

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2010). “Cryoburn”, p.5, gfdg hfdhdg

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• Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

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  Real, Color, Black

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• Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.

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  Perspective, Building, Accounts

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• Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

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  Lying, Men, Law

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• Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

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  Laughter, Fall, Mean

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

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  Habit, Miles, Plus

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.

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  Missing, Missing Something, Extraordinary

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• The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

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  Giving, Hook, Embedded

  "Paladin of Souls". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003.

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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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  Eye, May, Reason

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• A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

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  Sight, First Impression, Matter

  "Paladin of Souls". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003.

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• The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

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  War, Coffee, Winning

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• Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

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  Sight, Reason, Redundant

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2001.

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• I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

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  Fate

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