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“The only mystery that matters is who’s gonna survive. There are two groups left. The people with the flamethrowers and the people catching the flames. You’re holding a flamethrower right now. So shut up and be happy. And don’t make friends. You never know”
― A.G. Riddle, The Atlantis Plague

“when you didn’t know what you didn’t know, you could fool yourself pretty easily.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Mind's Eye

“privilege is founded on duty, and if the horse carries the man, the animal is fed before the rider himself doth eat. Thus in certain respects the first comes last, and the greatest king is the loneliest.”
― Thomas Berger, Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel

“All human beings must perform according to their nature.”
― Thomas Berger, Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel

“Stops at the end of the road collected Clyde Lidgards like dams collected silt.”
― C.J. Box, Open Season

“if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“A man may lie to his psychiatrist, his doctor, his wife, his employer, to God and to Mom, but his teeth tell all;”
― Stephen Hunter, Point of Impact

“like interviewing a new cleaner. Do you want someone who can give you the history of cleaning and the theory of cleaning, or do you want someone who’ll just get down and clean your fucking house? They chose you because they think you’ll clean their fucking house.”
― Robert Harris, The Ghost

“Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that’s all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.”
― David Baldacci, Stone Cold

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“How the air is so thick you can eat it like dirty pudding.”
― Stephen Romano, Before the Fall

“time belongs to everybody and everything, and nobody and nothing can lay claim to any part of it exclusively, so if you talk about the past as though there was just one version of it that everybody agrees on, you might be seen as stealing the spirit of others,”
― Thomas Berger, The Return of Little Big Man

“Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they’re either a preacher or selling something. Deal”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“I mean, everyone on earth has got a private dimension, and the case with some people is you can’t just look them in the eye and guess the nature of it.” He”
― Ben Sanders, American Blood

“If it’s criminal, it’s either stupid or crazy. Stupid people usually have guns, crazy people always do. In a choice between stupid and crazy, first investigate the stupid, because stupid is more common than crazy. In many cases, stupid is also more dangerous than crazy. You could”
― John Sandford, Holy Ghost

“Do they talk of dissolving the Union?… Well may the old man tremble, and his heart beat faint and low, When he thinks of the price it cost us some four score years ago!… If God has forsaken our country, the only boon I crave Is that he will delay its ruin till I have gone down to my grave; For I could not breathe with traitors, nor turn my face to the sun, Nor dwell in the land of the living, when the States are no longer one.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times

“. . they are as happy as a pig in shit.” “I’ve never seen a pig, but I doubt it is happy in shit.”
― K.F. Breene, Fate of Perfection

“No phantom of the future cast a shadow upon our sunny path,”
― Martin Dugard, The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

“Wells, though, had never touched her. It would have been like mixing alcohol and firearms. Guaranteed to be a lot of fun, right up until it wasn’t.”
― Brad Thor, Foreign Agent

“A man, he told himself, must belong to something, must have some loyalty and some identity. The galaxy was too big a place for any being to stand naked and alone.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

“That’s all that matters—how well you can walk through”
― Victor Methos, The Neon Lawyer

“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“before talking to NASA, I will take control of a craft in international waters without permission. That makes me a pirate! A space pirate! LOG ENTRY: SOL 383 You may be wondering what else I do with my free time.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“It’s awful to be alone, Jesse.” “If you can’t be alone,” Jesse said,”
― Robert B. Parker, Night Passage

“This thing is going down so good there’s not enough O’s in smooth.”
― Robert B. Parker, Trouble In Paradise

“The couple was odd, no doubt about it. But now, for the first time, little Jimmy Jones was loose on the town streets, and it soon became apparent that compared to the boy, his parents were almost normal.”
― Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

“Nothing was more important than the cause, facts included.”
― Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

“Nicest thing I can say about conspiracy nuts like you is that they have an overly optimistic view of man’s guile and cleverness. Realists like me see people for what they are: clumsy, selfish monkeys who try to grab all the bananas.” “Are”
― Johnny Shaw, Floodgate

“The last thing we need is twelve of these local mouth-breathers getting their feet tangled and acquitting the”
― James Chandler, Misjudged