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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

David Baldacci

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David Baldacci
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 5
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Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.
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Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we? Probably. Why? Just wanted confirmation.
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A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?
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The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.
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People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.
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In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.
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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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Trapped in a trap of your own making.
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Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
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Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
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Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.
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People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
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I'm a wicked ping-pong player.
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I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.
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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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Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
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Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap
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Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.
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Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.
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But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
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