Steven Brust Quotes

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• One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.
• Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.
• I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.
• True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.
• The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact,…
• I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the…
• When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's…
• Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.
• There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
• What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.
• He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes…
• Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.
• There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it…
• I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you…
• A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one…
• Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to…
• I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.
• Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world…
• One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate your own wit.…
• Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

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