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“modern manpads can fire head-on at their targets, but the old Russian ones must find the heat signature of an engine exhaust.”
― John Pearce, Last Stop: Paris

“It was like a Michener book (with the other fifty pages of the description torn out).”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“Just about the time you’re strolling down the street of life, hands in your pockets, not a care in the world, somebody pushes a piano out of a sixth-story window….”
― Michael Reisig, The Road to Key West

“At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms.”
― James Lee Burke, The New Iberia Blues

“What we do is punish the people who are available,” she said.”
― James Lee Burke, The New Iberia Blues

“symbolize the ruinous consequence of America’s decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved.”
― James Lee Burke, The New Iberia Blues

“People are what they do, not what they say, not what they think, not what they pretend to be.”
― James Lee Burke, The New Iberia Blues

“I love you, bwana, but sometimes I think I committed an unpardonable sin in a former life, and you were put here to give me a second chance.”
― James Lee Burke, The New Iberia Blues

“No matter how diligent you are, you can only direct so much of your future. Just about the time you’re strolling down the street of life, hands in your pockets, a small smile twisting the edges of your mouth, somebody pushes a piano out of a sixth-story window.”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West

“Love is a lot like contracting rabies. Sometime after you’ve been bitten you know you’re getting crazy, but there’s nothing you can do about it.”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West

“Margaritas and tacos…is there anything better?”
― Tom Turner, Palm Beach Predator

“Well, there’s no point in being grown-up if you can’t be childish sometimes.”
― John D. Patten, Miami Chill

“If you’re going to fight, fight like you’re the third monkey on the ramp to Noah’s Ark. And brother, it’s starting to rain. — on a t-shirt being sold by a Bangkok street vendor”
― Jake Needham, And Brother It's Starting to Rain

“For some reason, America produced an inexhaustible supply of sanctimonious killjoys endlessly crusading to improve everyone else’s life.”
― Jake Needham, And Brother It's Starting to Rain

“The motivations for human action were depressingly trivial.”
― Jake Needham, And Brother It's Starting to Rain