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One Good Deed (Archer, #1) One Good Deed by David Baldacci
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“Humans are built for companionship”
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“right or wrong, good or bad. You just didn’t wake up one day and decide enough was enough because your mate had a few more wrinkles or a few more pounds.”
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“And he and millions of others had just fought a world war to ensure that neither anarchy nor fascism nor anything else would replace the reasonable screwing over of people without money by those who possessed damn near all of it.”
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“And he and millions of others had just fought a world war to ensure that neither anarchy nor fascism nor anything else would replace the reasonable screwing over of people without money by those who possessed damn near all”
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“It seems to me that if I just follow along with everybody else, my life will always be crowded with folks I don’t necessarily care to spend time with.”
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“Later, under a vast, blue sky, Archer pushed the Nash fast as he roared down the road leading to Lucas Tuttle’s. The big, bulky car handled well and had plenty of power, like Shaw’s Buick. Before taking the wheel of the Buick, Archer hadn’t driven a car in years. For obvious reasons, the prison folks had not deemed it sensible to allow convicts to command heavy pieces of equipment”
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“BAIL”
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“But I think to really be part of something special, you have to find something special in yourself first.”
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“very”
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“when civilization gets shown the door, and the rule of law don’t matter for shit, and the whole damn world gets set on fire. It’s always closer than you think.”
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“anyway,”
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“Wars don’t change how people are, Archer. They just kill a bunch ’a folks and when it’s over, people go back to being how they always were. Most good, some not so good.”
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“of”
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“you mean?” “My way of looking at the world is that some folks do what they want, and they don’t care what happens to others, so long as it’s good for them.”
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“come”
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“She used me. Set me up like the sucker I am.”
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“Even a rich man can spend more than he's got coming in. And that makes him a poor man.”
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“While perhaps some would see it as a small issue, the fact was, if debts remained unpaid, whatever followed would genuinely be the collapse of civilization as any of them would know it...And he and millions of others had just fought a world war to ensure that neither anarchy nor fascism nor anything else would replace the reasonable screwing over of people without money by those who possessed damn near all of it.”
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“Good Lord, boy. I don’t talk business with a woman. They don’t have the sense for it.”
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“Hey, it’s all good.”
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“smaller ones using sledgehammers,”
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