Steven Brust Quotes (16 Quotes)


    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 is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

    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 contest.

    A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

    No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.

    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 out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.


    Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

    Maybe it's just me, but it seems like when things are going wrong-your wife is ready to leave you, all of your notions about yourself and the world are getting turned around, everything you trusted is becoming questionable-there's nothing like having someone try to kill you to take your mind off your problems.

    I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

    There is a similarity, if I may be permitted an excursion into tenuous metaphor, between the feel of a chilly breeze and the feel of a knife's blade, as either is laid across the back of the neck. I can call up memories of both, if I work at it. The chilly breeze is invariably going to be the more pleasant memory.

    Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

    Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

    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 earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

    Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.

    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 about what's cool.

    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.

    Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.


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