"We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion."

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“The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.”
“That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.”
“Good men prefer to be accountable.”
“The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.”
“Isn't it human beings who impart vitality to the image in the temple? If no one sculpts the stone, it doesn't become an image. If no one installs it in the temple, it does not acquire any sanctity. If no worship is done, it does not acquire any power. Without human effort there cannot be any temples. What is wrong then in saying that we should view great masters as equal to God? Temples installed by such spiritual masters have a special energy of their own.”
“I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.”
“Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”

Source : Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.144, Baen Books
“I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it just amounts to how the sound is lowered or raised. I was trying to get that with writing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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