You try to give away what you want yourself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

About Lois McMaster Bujold

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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...

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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.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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

—Lois McMaster Bujold

More quotations tagged with “giving”

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

—Kahlil Gibran

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

—George Eliot

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

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