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Lois McMaster Bujold, born on November 2, 1949, is an American science fiction author known for her profound philosophical insights, complex character development, and unique narrative style. Her most famous work is the 'Vorkosigan Saga', a series that has won multiple science fiction literary awards.

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Famous Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

“Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.”

People Whole Argument Killing Whole Life

Book:Miles Errant

Source: Miles Errant

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

People Knows Character Success Honor Army Divorce Reputation About Yourself Honored Knowing Who You Are

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”

People Ifs Hard Friendship Like You Resistance

Book:Diplomatic Immunity

Source: Diplomatic Immunity

“My home is not a place, it is people.”

People Life Home House Cleaning House Cleaning

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.”

People Dream Grows

Book:Komarr

Source: Komarr

“It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.”

People Humans Important Motivational Culture Universe Evil Existence Virtue Mirrors Punishment Celebrate Solitary Domain Confinement Solitary Confinement

Book:Mirror Dance

Source: Mirror Dance

“The world is made by the people who show up for the job.”

People World Made Shows Jobs

Book:Cryoburn

Source: Cryoburn

“All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.”

People Has Beens Moments Seems Dies Worry Spares

Book:Cryoburn

Source: Cryoburn

“Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?”

People Thinking Humans Said Whole Alive Capacity Miles Avoiding Underestimate Blindness Wishful Thinking Never Underestimate Human Capacity Avoiding Death

Author: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.”

People Ifs Way Giving Talking Quiet Blind Patient Bats Deaf

Book:Miles Errant

Source: Miles Errant

“If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.”

People Ifs Trying Motivational Doors Easier Surprise Target

Book:Young Miles

Source: Young Miles

“I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.”

People Thinking Pain Poor Half Madness Strategy Annoying

Book:Miles Errant

Source: Miles Errant

“They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.”

“I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'”

People I Can Can Do Generations Worst Technique Phrases Plot

Book:The Vorkosigan Companion

Source: The Vorkosigan Companion

“Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.”

People Needs Made Evil Force Can Do Security Military Arms Police Assumption Slides Atrocities Necessary Evil Military Police

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.”

People Thinking Important Literature Rap Escapists

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.”

People Way Impact Biotechnology

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

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Born: November 2, 1949
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Quotes: 232

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