Steven Brust Quotes

United States, Writer
November 23, 1955

Steven Karl Zoltán Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans living on a world called Dragaera. His recent novels also include The Incrementalists (2013) and its sequel The Skill of Our Hands (2017), with co-author Skyler White.

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

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- Together
- Apart
- Torn
There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

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- Excuse
- Manners
- Reflexes

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

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- Planned
- Avoided
- Heroics
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 doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

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- Good
- Result
- Actions
It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.

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- Want
- Being
- Rescued
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.

Steven Brust
- Feel
- Superior
- Pleases
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

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- Man
- Ambition
- Old
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.

Steven Brust

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

Steven Brust
- Speak
- Dragon
- Politely
Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

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- Use
- Works
- Explain
Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

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- Action
- Goals
- Harm