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“These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.”
― The Good Guy
― The Good Guy
“What are your choices when someone puts a gun to your head?
What are you talking about? You do what they say or they shoot you.
WRONG. You take the gun, or you pull out a bigger one. Or, you call their bluff. Or, you do any one of a hundred and forty six other things.”
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What are you talking about? You do what they say or they shoot you.
WRONG. You take the gun, or you pull out a bigger one. Or, you call their bluff. Or, you do any one of a hundred and forty six other things.”
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“There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold.”
― The Good Guy
― The Good Guy
“Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.”
― The Good Guy
― The Good Guy
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