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• If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.

  Ann Coulter

  Wish, Say Anything, Terrorist

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.186, Crown Forum

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• As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally.

  Ann Coulter

  Office, Important, President

  "Happy Giving Tree Festival To All, And To All A Good Night!". www.anncoulter.com. December 22, 2004.

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• Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.

  Gerald Posner

  Conspiracy, Cia, Documents

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• I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written.

  Terry Teachout

  Book, Writing, Appreciate

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• Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history.

  Peter Lovesey

  Real, Pages Turning, Intriguing

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• Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

  Bayard Rustin

  Birth Place, Mind, Rooms

  Bayard Rustin (1971). “Down the line”, Quadrangle-New York Times Book Co.

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• I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fiction, Losing, Equilibrium

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• You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Rivers, Feet, Twists

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Good Bones and Simple Murders”, p.11, Nan A. Talese

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• He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Government, People, United States

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• The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nwo, Office, President

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• If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Husband, Real, Writing

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• I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

  Alan Furst

  Writing, Use, Engines

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• "Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."

  Bill Richardson

  Moving, Garden, Novel

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• Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot. They said the only way they could get this investigation going was to do it in secret. They say they've been frustrated for a year and a half in getting this investigation into whether the administration twisted the intelligence and they're making no apologies whatsoever for it.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Halloween, Apology, Night

  "Partisan Anger Could Hobble Senate". abcnews.go.com. November 2, 2005.

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• If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s blip (as I'm sure you know). So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean—but we'd still have to explain the land blip.

  Tom Wigley

  Ocean, Mean, Land

  "Climate Science and Candor". www.wsj.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is a talent to watch.

  Giles Blunt

  Long, Secret, Watches

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• Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.

  Susan Jacoby

  Religious, Atheist, War

  Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.70, Macmillan

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• To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Real, Mean, Escaping

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Political, True Or False

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 83

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• I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Government, Play, Political

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.39, Da Capo Press

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• Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

  Chad Harbach

  Basketball, Soccer, Baseball

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• Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

  Agatha Christie

  Ideas, Hats, Odd

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• I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Beginnings And Ends, Lines

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• I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

  Christopher Darden

  Crazy, Real, Years

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• Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Book, Character

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