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All writers steal from their own lives.

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Brad Meltzer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 1
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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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We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.
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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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Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.
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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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Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.
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When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
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Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.
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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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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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I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
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Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.
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Overwatch doesn't just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.
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Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.
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We all live best in our imaginations.
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We're all being tested...That's what life is.
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We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
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For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.
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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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Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.
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