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Lois McMaster Bujold is an American science fiction and fantasy author, celebrated for her Vorkosigan Saga and her insightful character-driven stories. Her works have received numerous awards, including multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards. She is renowned for blending intelligent plots with wit, adventure, and deep emotional resonance. Here are 503 of her quotes:

This isn't a class. This is real life.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Even soldiers in battle have to be brought to a special state of mental excitement to shoot total strangers.

Lois McMaster Bujold

There are weapons all around us here, we just don't recognize them because we call them "tools.”.

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I don't know whose judgement is worse, yours or the jerk's who hired you-.

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Of all the times to pick for this outbreak of idiocy, this has gotta be the worst possible. It's got to be deliberate. Nothing this fouled up could be by chance.

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Stupidity, yes, but not unilateral stupidity. Something this screwed up had to have taken a committee.

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There was no way he could anticipate every contingency. When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.

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That idea only makes sense if you don't think too hard about it.

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In the long run more mercenaries have had their asses shot off by their contractors than by their enemies.

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Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them.

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Ask a simple question, get a simple brick wall.

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To kill a man, it helps if you can first take away his face. A neat mental trick. Handy for a soldier.

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No amount of money can make one stay bought. Who does not freely choose to.

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There are two possible ways to solving a dilemma, in justice or elsewhere; begin with the facts, and follow out their logic where it leads one, or begin with the desired outcome, and reason backward to the necessary steps to achieve it.

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Maybe only love gave you more than what you'd dealt for.

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Let's be sensible and wish for both of us there, while we're wishing. I mean, it's not like wishes are rationed.

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The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.

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It's been a long time since I wagered so much on a single throw. Though if I'm to revisit the desperation of my youth, I want the body back, too.

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It was not a very original period of my life. I won't say I fell in with bad company-I more hunted them down.

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Just because I have forgotten so many old enemies does not mean they have forgotten me.

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How many details had to point in the same direction before one decided they pointed true? Depends on how costly it is to be mistaken, maybe?

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Heaven weeps, but free will is sacred. The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.

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