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Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes (224 quotes)

“Any community's 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.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes:
Vorkosigan Saga

“With all this manure around, there's got to be a pony someplace.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

“Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

“I have no right to risk. No, that's not quite correct. I have no right to failure. And I don't trust myself anymore. I don't know what's happened to my edge. Lost it in a strange land.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

“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?”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

“Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

“My home is not a place, it is people.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

“It's... a transcendental act. Making life. I thought about that when I was carrying Miles. 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

“You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

“Live, and so confound our enemies.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

“Our children change us…whether they live or not.”
―Lois McMaster Bujold

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Vorkosigan Saga

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Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Born: November 2, 1949 (age 68)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer, novelist

Bio: Lois McMaster Bujold is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.

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