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I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.

Lois Mcmaster Bujold's Popular Quotes

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

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Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

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Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be gr…

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If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

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

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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

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