Dana Stabenow Quotes

• To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

  Dana Stabenow

  Rejection, Way, Embrace

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• Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

  Dana Stabenow

  Stories, Facts, Principles

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• The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.

  Dana Stabenow

  Rewards

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• When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

  Dana Stabenow

  Party, Divorce, Political

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• The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

  Dana Stabenow

  Library, Apes, Steps

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• Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

  Dana Stabenow

  Mean, Idaho, Alaska

  Dana Stabenow (2011). “Play with Fire”, p.99, Gere Donovan Press

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• We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin

  Dana Stabenow

  Needs, Body, Lasts

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• Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

  Dana Stabenow

  Fiction, Agents, Literature

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• That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak.

  Dana Stabenow

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• At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.

  Dana Stabenow

  Nice, Cancer, Sea

  Dana Stabenow (2011). “Dead in the Water”, p.10, Gere Donovan Press

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• Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

  Dana Stabenow

  Jobs, Stupidity, Population

  Dana Stabenow (2013). “The Kate Shugak Investigation - Box Set: A Kate Shugak Investigation:”, p.2058, Head of Zeus

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• Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them.

  Dana Stabenow

  Organization, Matter, Waste

  Dana Stabenow (2013). “The Kate Shugak Investigation - Box Set: A Kate Shugak Investigation:”, p.2338, Head of Zeus

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• If cyberspace can screw with you, it will.

  Dana Stabenow

  Cyberspace, Screws, Ifs

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