Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes - Page 5

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• Any communitys 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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  Military, People, Evil

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

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• Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

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  Kindness, Heart, Men

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• This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

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  Prayer, Moving, Doors

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• A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

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  Firsts, Retreat, Surprise

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.178, Baen Books

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• No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.

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  Enemy, Battle, Firsts

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

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• Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

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  Jobs, Done, Rewards

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.203, Baen Books

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• When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

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  Pain, Garden, Soul

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• Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

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  Life, Son, Cutting

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

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• I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

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  Missing, Wish, Minutes

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.13, Baen Books

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

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• You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.

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  Children, Common Humanity, Hands

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

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• For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

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  Book, Writing, Planning

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• I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

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  Tests, Failing, Irrevocable

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.158, Baen Books

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• Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

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  Rap, Thinking, People

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• I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

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  Writing, Careers, Isolated

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• I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

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  People, Technique, Plot

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2008). “The Vorkosigan Companion”, p.12, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

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  Impact, People, Way

  "Lois McMaster Bujold: Crime Scenes Tend to Be Book-Free Zones". www.wired.com. December 12, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

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  Greatness, Perfection, Achievement

  "Mirror Dance". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1994.

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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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