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Steven Brust Quote: “Ah, you poor fools, walking so tall and haughty with your guns and your sticks and your wide belts full of gear like the second coming of Batman, sitting in your little cars full of mechanized fear as you reach for your little radios at the first sign of anything more worrisome than a jaywalker.”

51. “Ah, you poor fools, walking so tall and haughty with your guns and your sticks and your wide belts full of gear like the second coming of Batman, sitting in your little cars full of mechanized fear as you reach for your little radios at the first sign of anything more worrisome than a jaywalker.”

— Steven Brust

Steven Brust Quote: “Your job is to find better ideas, mine is to cut holes in the ones you have, and you’ve already done that pretty well.”

52. “Your job is to find better ideas, mine is to cut holes in the ones you have, and you’ve already done that pretty well.”

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Steven Brust Quote: “Ever heard someone tell you that hard physical labor can be soothing? Can take your mind off your problems? Can leave you feeling better? I’d heard that. In my opinion, hard physical labor gives you blisters, and the only real distraction I got was trying to remember the spells I’d once known for curing them. He was much better than me, by the way; turns out there is even skill involved in digging holes. Who knew?”

53. “Ever heard someone tell you that hard physical labor can be soothing? Can take your mind off your problems? Can leave you feeling better? I’d heard that. In my opinion, hard physical labor gives you blisters, and the only real distraction I got was trying to remember the spells I’d once known for curing them. He was much better than me, by the way; turns out there is even skill involved in digging holes. Who knew?”

— Steven Brust

Steven Brust Quote: “I tend to close my eyes when I look at people anymore.”

54. “I tend to close my eyes when I look at people anymore.”

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Steven Brust Quote: “True heroics must be carefully planned – and strenuously avoided.”

55. “True heroics must be carefully planned – and strenuously avoided.”

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Steven Brust Quote: “She grinned and nodded and another frozen thing inside of me melted.”

56. “She grinned and nodded and another frozen thing inside of me melted.”

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Steven Brust Quote: “There’s nothing to tell.” I gave her a brief discussion of fertilizer. She seemed unimpressed with my agricultural expertise. “Believe what you like,” she said. It was good to have permission, but I resisted telling her so.”

57. “There’s nothing to tell.” I gave her a brief discussion of fertilizer. She seemed unimpressed with my agricultural expertise. “Believe what you like,” she said. It was good to have permission, but I resisted telling her so.”

— Steven Brust

Steven Brust Quote: “Those are good questions. I recognize good questions, because I can come up with them myself.”

58. “Those are good questions. I recognize good questions, because I can come up with them myself.”

— Steven Brust

Steven Brust Quote: “As I passed a market, I thought I saw Devera, Aliera’s daughter, looking at me. I almost stopped, but when I looked again she was gone, so I decided I was either imagining it, or she didn’t want to talk to me. She is a very unusual child, but I guess now isn’t the best time for that conversation. I put it out of my head and kept walking until I reached the Imperial Palace.”

59. “As I passed a market, I thought I saw Devera, Aliera’s daughter, looking at me. I almost stopped, but when I looked again she was gone, so I decided I was either imagining it, or she didn’t want to talk to me. She is a very unusual child, but I guess now isn’t the best time for that conversation. I put it out of my head and kept walking until I reached the Imperial Palace.”

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Steven Brust Quote: “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 of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.”

60. “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 of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.”

— Steven Brust

Steven Brust Quote: “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, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.”

61. “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, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.”

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Steven Brust Quote: “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 and then, I don’t know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.”

62. “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 and then, I don’t know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.”

— Steven Brust

Steven Brust Quote: “The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.”

63. “The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.”

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Steven Brust Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Steven Brust

Steven Brust Quote: “Chaler, who had finished his ale, left the cup where it was, making no effort to procure more, indicating that he was capable of what the natural philosopher calls “learning behaviour,” which turn of phrase pleases us so much that we cannot resist making use of it.”

65. “Chaler, who had finished his ale, left the cup where it was, making no effort to procure more, indicating that he was capable of what the natural philosopher calls “learning behaviour,” which turn of phrase pleases us so much that we cannot resist making use of it.”

— Steven Brust

Steven Brust Quote: “Are we going after it, Boss?” “After it? Are you nuts? What if we caught it?” “I love it when you break out in common sense.”

66. “Are we going after it, Boss?” “After it? Are you nuts? What if we caught it?” “I love it when you break out in common sense.”

— Steven Brust

Steven Brust Quote: “You’re not desperate until you’ve opened all the doors. T-A-L-T-O-S.”

67. “You’re not desperate until you’ve opened all the doors. T-A-L-T-O-S.”

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Steven Brust Quote: “I’d fought personal demons and impersonal gods and wandered through buildings that couldn’t exist to do impossible things.”

68. “I’d fought personal demons and impersonal gods and wandered through buildings that couldn’t exist to do impossible things.”

— Steven Brust

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