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Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

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Brad Meltzer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 1
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Aren
Happen
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I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.
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Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.
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Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.
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As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
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A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.
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Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
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My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
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Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.
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And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.
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...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.
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In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.
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Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
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there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
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You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.
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Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.
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No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.
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I need the kind of help that comes with a side order of help.
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There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.
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So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
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There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
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