Lois McMaster Bujold quotes - page 14

It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. View quote
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There is no safety. Only varying states of risk. And failure. View quote
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Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice. View quote
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The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. View quote
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I suppose my determination to be a soldier stems from that date. View quote
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Reading is an active and elusive experience. Every reader, reading exactly the same text, will have a slightly different reading experience depending on what s/he projects into the words s/he sees, what strings of meaning and association those words call up in his/her (always) private mind. View quote
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. View quote
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Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. View quote
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. View quote
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Interim reports tend to elicit orders. Which you must either then obey, or spend valuable time and energy evading, which you could be using to solve the problem. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Some problems could only be solved by running away from them. View quote
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Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live. View quote
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Money, power, sex... and elephants. View quote
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You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on. View quote
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But when he's cut, I bleed. View quote
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It was hell to be so tired, and still care. View quote
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Marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion. View quote
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I'm just dazzled by the glittering tinsel of neo-fascism. View quote
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When you can see the colors of the feathers, you'll also understand how you can expand your borders to infinity. View quote
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Am I reading too much into all that innuendo, or did you in fact just connive to assassinate Gregor in one breath, offer to cuckold him in the next, accuse your father of homosexuality, suggest a patricidal plot against him, and league yourself with Cavilo -- what are you going to do for an encore? (Lois McMaster Bujold)
As God is my witness, when I am laid to my rest, I hope my best beloved will have better to say of me than "He never hit me." View quote
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It was seldom he found himself in company who made him feel this stupid. It was probably good for his soul. View quote
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Don't be afraid. The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face that, I find. View quote
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The wounded want power, nothing else; they think it will keep them from being hurt again. View quote
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