Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push … - Tom Holt

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Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Tom Holt

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About Tom Holt

Thomas Charles Louis Holt (born September 13, 1961) is an author of parodic mythopoeic fiction. He is the son of novelist Hazel Holt. Steve Nallon collaborated with Holt to write I, Margaret, an unauthorized biography of Margaret Thatcher published in 1989. He also writes fantasy under the pseudonym K. J. Parker.

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Pen Names: K. J. Parker

Alternative Names: Thomas Charles Louis Holt • K.J. Parker

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Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.

But the unforeseen consequences—"
"What consequences?"
"I don't know, I can't foresee them.

The doctrine of sides," he went on, "states that there is no right or wrong, only different perspectives. From where I stand, such and such a thing looks like a tree; from where you stand, it looks like a rock. For tree and rock, read sin and virtue.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it. - Tom Holt

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