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But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.
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Decker shook his head and stood. "It goes beyond mere eccentricity. She also has a run-down farmhouse and a crappy car that she drives to work and on her rounds as the proverbial Good Samaritan." "What does that tell you?" "If you were a spy and had"
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Why the hell don't kids call their parents anymore? Why don't they answer their phones? Why all this crazy texting shit?
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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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Maybe I shot the sheriff and the deputy.
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By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing,
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For me, the Canyon isn't just a tourist destination. It's a living, breathing place. It has a dozen plants that live nowhere else.
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But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people.
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And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.
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doyle
hound-of-baskervilles
david-baldacci
shaw
sherlock-holmes
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Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.' 'What?' said Mars, looking too. 'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.' 'Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.
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tolerance
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The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.
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The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that's all you need for a major life change: a dream.
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At the end of a lifetime's worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us? We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn't it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?
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CIA
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see evidence of
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Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions.
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David Baldacci |
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cut there. He instantly knew what Patti had done.
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David Baldacci |
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I've seen enough in this world to know that two people who can make each other that miserable must love each other a lot.
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David Baldacci |
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Businesses don't give a crap about creating jobs. They care about making money. With robots, you'll just need some tech guys to maintain and repair them.
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He got into the car thinking that people were interesting. Sometimes they just couldn't distinguish the truth from bullshit. Sometimes they didn't want to. It was often easier just to believe a lie.
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People who believe themselves to be True patriots tend to be zealots. Zealots, in my opinion are one short step from being lunatics.
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David Baldacci |
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She'd heard that the author Margaret Mitchell had never lived in a place with more than one bedroom for a simple reason: She had never wanted houseguests.
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David Baldacci |
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Tyree explained, "This man attacked a guard barely"
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David Baldacci |
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platform would look, well, abandoned. Not a
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David Baldacci |
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there?" When"
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David Baldacci |
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45 H
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David Baldacci |
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Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to
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David Baldacci |
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to take it easy," he said defensively." --
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David Baldacci |
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clay, collodion to make scars
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David Baldacci |
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When I hugged you for the burgers. Susan Reynolds isn't the only one good at sleight of hand." Puller"
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David Baldacci |
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Wait a minute; I thought the Battles didn't pay the ransom." "No, they did but they got it back--well, at least most of it."
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David Baldacci |
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ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.
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David Baldacci |
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how I really feel when he was here
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David Baldacci |
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mythology," said Robie."
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David Baldacci |
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eighty pounds; hardly any of it was fat. Most people looking only
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David Baldacci |
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hundred and eighty pounds; hardly any of it was fat. Most people
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David Baldacci |
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To Aunt Peggy, an angel on earth if ever there was one
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David Baldacci |
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DB. What finally got
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David Baldacci |
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Small observations can lead to large breakthroughs.
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David Baldacci |
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surprised about it. The case presents no unsettled question of law that requires our intervention. Need I say more?" He threw up his hands. "In your opinion?" A tinge of red eased across Ramsey's face. "In the published opinions of this Court over the last fifty years. All I ask is that you accord the Court's precedents the respect they deserve." "You'll find no one who holds this institution in higher regard than I do." "Very happy to hear..
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His features were Middle Eastern, his eyes haunted but also defiant. They were all defiant, Gray had found. When he looked at someone like al-Omari, Gray couldn't help but think of a Dostoyevsky creation, the displaced outsider, brooding, plotting and methodically stroking a weapon of anarchy. It was the face of a fanatic, of one possessed by a deranged evil. It was the same type of person who'd taken away forever the two people Gray had lo..
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David Baldacci |
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She was around fifty and her eye sockets were starting to recede into her face like a pond starting to dry up.
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David Baldacci |
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A Sig P228. But it had
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