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It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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James Brendan Patterson
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We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered.
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I'm way hot, he muttered. But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot. Fang
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But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works
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My thing is when we're doing a movie or TV show, I just want to go in and look at it and go, That was great.
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Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.
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There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.
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The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.
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Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.
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I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.
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fang will be the first to die
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Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.
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Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?
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