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Lois McMaster Bujold quotes

American Writer November 2, 1949

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Sorry, Bill. I just have this awful vision of being p-peeled like an onion, looking for the seeds."He grinned. "Onions don't have seeds, Cordelia."I stand corrected," she said dryly. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow..."
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them..."
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. Lois McMaster Bujold
This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely."I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days. Lois McMaster Bujold
Emperors per se did not unnerve Miles . . . . Emperor Gregor had been raised along with Miles practically as his foster-brother; somewhere in the back of Miles's mind the term emperor was coupled with such identifiers as somebody to play hide-and-seek with. In this context those hidden assumptions could be a psychosocial land mine. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!"
I am not a fate worse than death, dammit! Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created..."
On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS Lois McMaster Bujold
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do..."
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid. Lois McMaster Bujold
Learn everything that existed in the universe, and whatever was left, thatdwarfish-man-shaped hole in the center, would be him by process of elimination. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone..."
Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them."
Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Money, power, sex ... and elephants."
Money, power, sex ... and elephants. Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?"What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly. Lois McMaster Bujold
Signs of the Bastard's holy presence tend to be unmistakable, to those who know Him. The screaming, the altercations, the people running in circles - all that was lacking was something bursting into flame, and I was not entirely sure for a moment you weren't going to provide that as well. Lois McMaster Bujold

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