Steven Brust Quotes

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• A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
• To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek…
• Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.
• All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer…
• The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the…
• Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.
• No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
• But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action…
• Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?
• There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the…
• It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.
• The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.
• You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But…
• I'd rather be running the game than playing it.
• The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the…
• Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.
• In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated,…
• Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.
• It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot…
• You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

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