Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

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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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  Death, Justice, Cry

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Diplomatic Immunity”, p.60, Baen Books

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

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  Success, Character, Divorce

  "A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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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 great at whatever you are.

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  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

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  Desire, Action, Wells

  "Memory". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

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• The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

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  Beautiful, Real, Men

  "Shards of Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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

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  Want, Idiot, Objects

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.360, Baen Books

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• If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

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  Inspiration, Choices, Ifs

  "Falling Free". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1988.

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• Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

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  Perfect, Deeds, Accomplished

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1994). “Mirror Dance”, p.163, Baen Books

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• All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

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  Athlete, Destiny, Artist

  "Author's Afterword". "Cordelia's Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

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

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  Smart, Feet, Seven

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

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

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  Growing Up, Growing, Finished

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.391, Baen Books

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• I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

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  Mean, Names, Depth

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• Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

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  Thinking, Avoiding Death, People

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• When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

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  Love, Winning, Giving

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.105, Baen Books

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

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  Dream, People, Grows

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.57, Baen Books

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• Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

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  Feet, Missing, Target

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.118, Baen Books

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• The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

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  Character, Guy, Plot

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.389, Baen Books

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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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  Pain, Winning, Disability

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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• You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

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  Happiness, Pain, Fall

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.312, Baen Books

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• Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

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  Light, Defeat, Now And Then

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• When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

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  Action, You Choose, Consequence

  "Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, Book 17)". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, October 1996.

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• Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

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  Fall, Honor, Reputation

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.164, Baen Books

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• The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

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  Important, Quests, Findings

  "Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold about writing the Vorkosigan Saga". Interview with Jo Walton, www.tor.com. April 20, 2009.

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• Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

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  Achieve, Overachieving

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

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