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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

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

self reputation honor

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

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humility goodness

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste… years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just… take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

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The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.

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potential perfection belief

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

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violence victory massacre

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold in Diplomatic Immunity

risk chance youth

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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opportunity glory luxury

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

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Books

Lois McMaster Bujold has the following books quoted on Quodid:

Diplomatic Immunity