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If the world is dead, at least it took Applebee's with it.
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filibustering, and
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I'm not sure what you mean." "Ask him if he's telling the truth." Cameron thought she must be kidding, but Jeanine's eyes were hard and serious. "Right."
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Taking acceptable risks is a key ingredient for success. If the path was easy, everyone would take it. Ballsy people, if they're intelligent and learn from their mistakes, shape the world. The thing that few people get is that ballsy people aren't any more certain than anyone else. They know they could fail, but also know that if they don't take a shot, they can't succeed either.
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Typical. Lemonade turned back into lemons, then into piss.
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strength and a weakness -- an obsessive-compulsive breed of obstinacy. Those who couldn't accept the obvious would slam their heads against the inevitable until they exhausted their numbers and dwindled to nothing.
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So now there really are little green men on the moon?" "These people weren't official SETI. They didn't understand the data at first. Turns out, they were hearing an echo. Something not from the moon, but bouncing off the moon."
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Lila sensed the cessation of motion more than she actually felt it. Being in the shuttle did something to her equilibrium -- something about the sense of being high in the air in what looked like a bubble from the inside combined with a force that felt like an invisible seat belt. Her fear was making everything worse.
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open. The two other men ran out, the blond's hair in corkscrews. He looked lost, baffled by the wreck at the bottom of the incline. But the other --the one with the buzz cut --didn't look lost at all. He looked like he knew exactly what was happening, angry as a kicked nest of wasps. His head ticked toward Lila. She slunk back, hopefully out of sight. She had no idea if he'd seen her, and couldn't peek to check. Lila was blind. And he might..
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Control or block?" Piper asked."
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Howdy there, you've reached Boricio's Center For Mental Fitness. Please listen to the following options: If you're obsessive compulsive, press #1 over and over, 47 times or your mother will die. If you're co-dependent, turn to the nearest asshole and ask them to press #2 for you. Multiple personalities, I will direct you to buttons #3, 4, 5, and 6. Press them all, one at a time. If you're paranoid, we know who you are, and we will motherfuc..
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Oh shit, I'm sorry," Brent said. He never knew what to say when someone mentioned death. And he always felt like "sorry" was one of the worst things you could say. It was so ... trite. Yet, he could never think of anything better. He'd tried other phrases, like "sorry for your loss," but that felt like a cheesy cop show line, even if it was slightly better than "sorry." If he were being honest, he'd simply say, "that sucks," because death t..
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Success comes from hard work and the accumulation of small numbers. Unlike yesterday, today's prosperity can bloom from continuous intelligent production. For the first time in history, life as a full-time writer has become about simple math.
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In an ethical sales transaction, the buyer and seller should be equally pleased. Each party should feel like thanking the other. Ethical marketing is nothing more than letting people who might like your product know it exists -- and, ideally, giving them some sort of a deal that makes the offer better for the potential buyer.
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unbelievably, even Charlie --had come from moments of privacy with red eyes. Piper had cried the most, and openly. But it wasn't loss she saw on Cameron's face now. It was something worse. "They let us go," he said. "They almost killed us back at Little Cottonwood, but then they had their time to cool off, and now they're just watching again. They won't hurt us. No matter what we do, we're free to be slaves." "We don't know that," Andreus s..
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They have insurance, and my insurance has been ripping me off for years. I owe them one." "How do you know it's the same insurance company?" said Lila. "They're all owned by Satan. Let's go."
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Some thoughts you shouldn't let out of their cage.
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Meyer closed his eyes, obeying the summons. But this time, Divinity's presence was further away, not as intimate.
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Take Daddy's hand. And Clara, to Lila's immense relief, merely walked alongside him without claiming his offer.
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Sean Platt is the bestselling co-author of over 60 books, including breakout post-apocalyptic horror serial Yesterday's Gone, literary mind-bender Axis of Aaron, and the blockbuster sci-fi series, Invasion. Never one for staying inside a single box for long, he also writes smart stories for children under the pen name Guy Incognito, and laugh out loud comedies which are absolutely not for children. He is also the founder of the Sterling & S..
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Like the idea that there were aliens among us. That there always have been, I mean. I'd read about Elvis being an alien and Richard Nixon being an alien and Jimi Hendrix and Donald Fucking Trump being aliens.
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But see, publishers don't actually know what readers want. They know what distributors want. Joe and Jane Smith? No clue. Barnes & Noble? Wal-Mart? Publishers know what those guys want. Welcome back, gatekeepers.
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