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“Old enough to look as if he knew what to do, young enough to look as if he could do it.”

Steve Perry

Source: The Tejano Conflict (2014), Chapter 4

“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.”

Steve Perry

Source: The Vastalimi Gambit (2013), Chapter 11

Stupidity

“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.”

Steve Perry

Prologue
The Vastalimi Gambit (2013)

God , Time

“Young soldiers had a lot of expectations and fantasies about how it would be and what they would do and feel. Invariably wrong, those expectations.”

Steve Perry

Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 11

Feeling

“Rich people seldom run amok; They hire somebody to do that for them.”

Steve Perry

Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 5

People

“What other paths were there? His studies had shown him that revolution and evolution were the only ways that societies ever truly changed. Revolution and evolution, built of a mix of education and violence and politics and compromise and self-interest and self-preservation. Certainly, history showed that rigid societies, like ancient dinosaurs, always died. The Confed was the biggest dinosaur ever, and while it was already dying and had been doing so for a long time, it would take many years before it finally fell. Any empire which had to hold its citizens in check with military force was far down the road to destruction. Which brought up another thought: what would replace the dead beast when it began to rot? What parasite would emerge from the corpse to try and breed itself into superiority?”

Steve Perry book The Man Who Never Missed

Source: The Man Who Never Missed (1985), Chapter 15 (p. 132)

Study , Time , History , Dead

“A woman did what a woman had to, the best way she knew how. To do more was impossible, to do less, unthinkable.”

Steve Perry

Source: Matadora (1986), Chapter 1 (p. 5)

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