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The Bootlegger (Isaac Bell, #7)

by Clive Cussler

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"Ch. 20" — Sep 24, 2026 08:27PM

Sep 24, 2026 08:27PM

“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
― Margaret Atwood , Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

tags: authors, disappointment, epigrams, fandom, on-writing, similes, writers

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“Once you freeze all the way through to your soul, you will never feel warm again.”
― Steve Hamilton, Winter of the Wolf Moon

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“When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it--fight back! ”
― Donald Trump

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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“Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.”
― John Grisham, The Street Lawyer

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