Lois McMaster Bujold - People Quotes

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

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Mother Nature gives a sense of romance to young people, in place of prudence, to advance the species. It's a trick—that makes us grow.

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

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Any community's 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.

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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.

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Eloquence consists of persuading people of things they desperately want to believe. Demagoguery, I suppose, is eloquence sliding to some least moral energy level.

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You must kill if you expect to survive."
"No you don't," Miles put in. "Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

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There are a number of people in the universe I'd be willing to double-cross, but my own wounded aren't among 'em.

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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.

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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... 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.

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I have no idea why some of my books draw awards and others don't, except that the ones I spent the least time worrying about other people's response to — that I wrote for myself — seem to do the best of all.

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I have a catchphrase to describe my plot-generation technique — "What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?"

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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.

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Lots of us SF-types like the idea of traveling to the Future (although, having now done so once myself — the hard way — I'm less sure), but why do we imagine the Future would want us? Oh, a few 21st-century Icemen, perhaps, as historical curiosities, but in our hundreds of millions? It would be like the greatest wave of immigration ever, but from the past into other people's Now. It might seem to them like sacrificing resources needed for their children to their great-great-great-grandparents. Counter-evolutionary, among other things.

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