Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes - Page 7

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• I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Technology, Thinking, Different

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

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• I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Care, Patient, Given

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• I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Inspiration, Writing, Usual

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Book, Writing, Adventure

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2008). “The Vorkosigan Companion”, p.61, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  War, Coffee, Winning

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• It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Easier, Permission

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

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• Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Escaping, Climbing Up, Pages

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• Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Habit, Miles, Plus

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

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• I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Roots, Culture, Liberation

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2008). “The Vorkosigan Companion”, p.13, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Civilization, Energy, Useless

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• I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Character, Men, Duty

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

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• My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Party, Soul, Dinner

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.101, Baen Books

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• Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Dream, Airports, Anxiety

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• Our children change us... whether they live or not.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Change, Children, Reality

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

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• A price is something you get.
  A cost is something you lose.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Cost, Loses, Values

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.128, Baen Books

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• Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Prayer, Hate, Men

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• If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Winning, Games, Ifs

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.50, Baen Books

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• Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Keys, Decision, Lessons

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Liars, Men, Thinking

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• Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Army, Weapons, If I Could

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.41, Baen Books

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• They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

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  Sleep, Caring, Men

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• The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Pain, Faces, Embrace

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.170, Baen Books

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• For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Mad, Despair, Lasts

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.195, Baen Books

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• You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Heart, Humility, Secret

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.35, Baen Books

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• His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.

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  Moving, Tired, Hands

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