"True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided."

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Source : Steven Brust (1999). “The Book of Jhereg”, p.58, Penguin

Steven Brust

“The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.”
“The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.”
“The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.”

Source : "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I do everything by hand... Even if I'm doing really big letters and I spend a lot of time going over the line and over the line and trying to make it straight, I'll never be able to make it straight. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.”
“Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.”
“My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.”
“The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.”
“I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.”

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