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Quotes from The Vastalimi Gambit — Steve Perry

born 1947 United States

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The good old days always seemed better in distant memory than they had actually been at the time.

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A large bomb obscures a lot of evidence.

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“We aren’t looking for trouble.”
“Doesn’t mean you won’t find it.”

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Death came for all, and it was never a matter of “if,” only “when.”

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Well. You were allowed to be young and stupid, when you were young and stupid, and if it didn’t do you in, you might get older and wiser.

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Desire, she realized, was a thick fog that could completely obscure reality.

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But was it not you who used to tell me that the more you knew, the better? That knowledge was the sharpest fang?

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You’re not an ape, use a tool!

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Droc was not particularly religious himself. If the gods responded to entreaties, they had never demonstrated it to him. Better his time was spent doing something that might work.

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He understood the phenomenon, of how almost dying made you appreciate what life had to offer. And it was a potent drug, that feeling. Battle was not glorious. But surviving it? That was.

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When he saw me look her over, he hinted that she might be willing to, ah, stay behind and work out details of the contract with me personally, no matter how long it might take.”
Jo nodded. No surprise there. Sex had sold stuff ever since stuff had been around.

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“The rules are different for rich men,” he said. “Always have been.”

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steve Perry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.