Lois McMaster Bujold quotes - page 4

Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
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. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present-they are real.
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History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.
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It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
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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.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
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Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.
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[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including - or perhaps especially - the failures.
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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
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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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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And the Bastard grant us... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding.
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Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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Vorreedi stated dangerously, "I am not a mushroom, Lieutenant Vorkosigan." To be kept in the dark and fed on horseshit, right. Miles sighed inwardly.
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The cream pie of justice flies one way.
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We don't just march on the future, we charge it.
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I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.
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I'm *not* schizophrenic. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "Know thyself." "We try, sir. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Yeah, so I'm short. But wait'll you see me dance.
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There is a subtle difference between being a prisoner and being a slave. I don't mistake either for being free.
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East is west, up is down, and being falsely arrested for getting your C. O.'s throat cut is a simplification. I must be on Barrayar.
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If we shouldn't do it, we shouldn't be able to do it.
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