Lois McMaster Bujold on History
born 1949 United States
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The most interesting question of history is always, What were these people thinking?
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012)
Anyway, she now realized, the military histories she’d read had left out the most important part; they never told what happened to people’s babies.
Barrayar (1991)
History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.
Cryoburn (2010)
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? Too damaged.
Memory (1996)
Some people would rather drown our domes in blood than learn anything from history. Or learn anything at all.
Brothers in Arms (1989)
Those who do not know their history, his thought careened, are doomed to keep stepping in it. Alas, so were those who did, it seemed.
The Vor Game (1990)