Lois McMaster Bujold frasi celebri
da Il gioco dei Vor, traduzione di Gianluigi Zuddas, Nord, 1992
Lois McMaster Bujold: Frasi in inglese
“Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“The wounded want power, nothing else; they think it will keep them from being hurt again.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“A skilled soldier kills your enemies, but a skilled duelist kills your allies.”
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000)
“He gave himself up to God and pressed the button.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 15 (p. 284)
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 459
“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.”
This includes a common paraphrase of a statement which originates with military strategist Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke: "No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 76
"'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 54
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
Geek Speak Magazine Interview (2010)
“Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.”
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 328
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 8 (p. 128)
“If we shouldn't do it, we shouldn't be able to do it.”
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
“Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.”
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 369
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 125
“Yes,” Vorkosigan agreed, “I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.”
Chapter 4 (p. 60)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (pp. 273-274)
“The best strategies run on rails. Live or die, you make your goal.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“Three cheers for literacy… I feel sick.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
Geek Speak Magazine Interview (2010)
“Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
This evokes a statement in "Death of a Hired Man" by Robert Frost: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
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