Quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold

American speculative fiction writer

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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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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  • I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
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  • A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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  • A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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  • An honor is not diminished for being shared.
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  • Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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  • Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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  • 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.
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  • His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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  • How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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  • I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.
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  • I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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  • If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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  • If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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  • If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
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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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  • It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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  • My home is not a place, it is people.
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  • Our children change us…whether they live or not.
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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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The two most famous quotes from Lois McMaster Bujold are:

  • "The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them."
  • "I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement."