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You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

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David Baldacci
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 5
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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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Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.
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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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But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.
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Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.
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Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap
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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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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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You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.
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Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we? Probably. Why? Just wanted confirmation.
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Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
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Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
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It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.
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Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
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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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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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The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
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Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.
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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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It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.
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