David Baldacci Quotes - Page 2

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• Trapped in a trap of your own making.

  David Baldacci

  Traps, Trapped

  David Baldacci (2012). “The Innocent”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

  David Baldacci

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  David Baldacci (2011). “One Summer”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

  David Baldacci

  Writing, Vivid Imagination, World

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• That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

  David Baldacci

  Real, Civilization, Survival

  David Baldacci (2012). “The Innocent”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

  David Baldacci

  People, Human Nature, Share

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• Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.

  David Baldacci

  Humanity, Principles, Process

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• Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

  David Baldacci

  Beach, Reading, People

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• I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.

  David Baldacci

  Hard Work, Character, Challenges

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• I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

  David Baldacci

  Player, Wicked, Ping Pong

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

  David Baldacci

  Trying, Labels, World

  David Baldacci (2011). “One Summer”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)

  David Baldacci

  Misplaced

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• Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

  David Baldacci

  Knights, Justice, Disrespect

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• Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

  David Baldacci

  Long, Corruption, Humans

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Winner”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

  David Baldacci

  Running, People, Soul

  David Baldacci (2009). “Absolute Power”, p.350, Pan Macmillan

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• Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

  David Baldacci

  Men, Age, Who Cares

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Whole Truth”, p.213, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

  David Baldacci

  Tired, People, I'm Tired

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• You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

  David Baldacci

  Persons

  David Baldacci (2012). “The Forgotten”, p.308, Pan Macmillan

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• Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

  David Baldacci

  Book, Writing, Years

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• But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

  David Baldacci

  Hero, Protagonists

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• I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

  David Baldacci

  Children, Writing, Lap

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• I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

  David Baldacci

  People, President, Flip

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• Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

  David Baldacci

  Life, Essence, Long

  David Baldacci (2002). “The Winner”, p.473, Hachette UK

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• Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

  David Baldacci

  Truth, Inspire, Half

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Winner”, p.277, Pan Macmillan

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• It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

  David Baldacci

  May, Cotton, Knows

  David Baldacci (2011). “Wish You Well”, p.260, Pan Macmillan

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• See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit.’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner

  David Baldacci

  Church, Want, Skinner

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