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Steven Brust [1955-0] American

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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.

Fear, Trust

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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.		101
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.		102
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.	Fear, Trust	103
Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.		104
It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.		105
Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.		106
Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.		107
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.		108
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.		109
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.		110
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.		111
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.		112
I'd rather be running the game than playing it.		113
Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?		114

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