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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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Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
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Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
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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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Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.
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It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
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Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
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Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
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Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
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Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
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There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.
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People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots.
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There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
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Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.
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It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
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A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
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She didn't strike me as a crossword in ink kind of girl
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Two questions form the foundation of all novels: What if? and What next? (A third question, What now?, is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if X happened? That's how you start.
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Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.
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That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
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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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