A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.
As he’d thought, and as he’d always known, Henry and Vivian were better suited for each other. But better is not best, and though he was angry— and hurt— he was also concerned about Vivian. He still l...
Credo quia impossibile.’ I believe it because it is impossible.
Every veteran since the first war got fucked big-time. Maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself. There’s no war long enough or bad enough to mess up your head as bad as you messed it up yourse...
How you doing at 26 Fed? I’m growing and learning, meeting new challenges with confidence and enthusiasm while developing good work ethics and people skills. I’m surprised they haven’t fired your ass....
I only drink a little, but when I do, I become a different person, and that person drinks a lot.
It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.
Most of the MacCormicks and Bedells are college grads and according to my father the youngsters have all been educated beyond their intelligence.
Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.
One can be a product only of one’s own era, not anyone else’s.
There is no harder worker than a former government employee who has discovered the word incentive.
There were two display windows, one on each side of the door, and in the windows were…well, books. What this street really needed was a bar.
They brought with them seventeen American POWs who were secretly imprisoned in Villa Marista for advanced experiments with drugs. It was hard to imagine being taken prisoner in Vietnam, tortured there...
Well, sonny, in my country, gun control means using both hands.
When you’re dealing with people who have no moral center, no loyalty to anyone but themselves, you don’t always get the logical results you expect, or the truth that you paid for.
You can get away with a bad decision, but not a bad mistake.
If he were honest with himself, he’d understand that his hate was, in fact, a form of respect. You don’t bother to hate what you think is contemptible.
Talented wisecracker.…
And there was a time, you know, not so long ago, as recently as my own childhood in fact, when everyone believed in the future and eagerly awaited it or rushed to meet it. But now nearly everyone I kn...
He understood, too, that they had not necessarily been chosen to succeed, or even to live. But they'd been chosen to find the Holy Grail that was within themselves. And that's what this was always abo...
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