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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.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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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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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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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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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
Lois McMaster Bujold
A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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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.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
Lois McMaster Bujold
People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
Lois McMaster Bujold
When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
Lois McMaster Bujold
I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
Lois McMaster Bujold
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
Lois McMaster Bujold