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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels featuring Miles Vorkosigan, a physically impaired interstellar spy and mercenary admiral from the planet Barrayar, set approximately 1000 years in the future. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her its 36th SFWA Grand Master in 2019.

Quotes from Lois McMaster Bujold

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence, you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

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truth salvation

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

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power stupidity

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Be gentle with the young.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.

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You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

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greatness self-control self-discipline

A good home must be made, not bought.

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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

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Books

Lois McMaster Bujold has the following books quoted on Quodid:

Diplomatic Immunity