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Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

David Baldacci

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David Baldacci
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 5
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All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.
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Trapped in a trap of your own making.
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People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.
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See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit.’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner
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Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
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Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
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Pender laughed. Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.
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