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Success will ruin your life.

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Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
Jr.
Thomas Clancy
Thomas L. Clancy
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There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.
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I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
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I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.
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Surviving is much more painful than death.
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Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
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I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.
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If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.
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The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
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The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
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I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.
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Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.
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Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
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Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
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I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.
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