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• Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

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  Nomenclature, Waste, Pedants

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.186, 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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• It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

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  Easier, Permission

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.77, Baen Books

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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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• Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. "Are you all right?" "Yes. Sorry," he whispered. "I'm just having an attack of limericks." Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip; only her deepening dimple betrayed her. "Shhh," she said, with feeling.

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  Sorry, Eye, Feelings

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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.

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  Girl, Sorry, Play

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

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  Prayer, Savages, Answers

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, p. 94, 2000.

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• There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

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  Men, Might, Limits

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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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• There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

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  Library, Overcoming, Gone

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.63, 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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• 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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• I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.

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  Boys, Soldier, Risk

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

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• Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

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  Love, Honesty, Real

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.165, Baen Books

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• If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

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  Running, Want, Way

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

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• One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

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  Time, Watches, World

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

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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'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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• 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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• 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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