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> [“She was still doing forty knots, driving in under the guns of the enemy, guns at maximum depression, when "A" magazine blew up, blasted off the entire bows in one shattering detonations. For a second, the lightened fo'c'sle reared high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/she-was-still-doing-forty-knots-driving-in-under-the-guns-of-the/)

[Alistair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

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## More by Alistair Maclean

> [Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/bowman-turned-his-back-on-her-and-began-to-search-the-place/)

[Alistair Maclean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [“Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/foster-always-said-that-education-was-very-important-but-that-it-didn/)

[Alistair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/i-wrote-each-book-in-thirty-five-days-flat-just-to-get-the-darned/)

[Alistair Maclean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/i-m-not-a-born-writer-and-i-don-t-enjoy-writing/)

[Alistair Maclean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/there-are-no-brave-men-and-cowardly-men-in-the-world-my-son-there-are/)

[Alistair Maclean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [“Tallal, Lawrence relates, gave a moan like a hurt animal. Then he rode off to higher ground and remained there for some moments, shivering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/tallal-lawrence-relates-gave-a-moan-like-a-hurt-animal-then-he-rode/)

[Alistair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/the-men-of-the-ulysses-had-no-need-to-stand-in-shame-many-had-found/)

[Alistair Maclean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/this-won-t-look-so-good-in-my-obituary-schaffer-said-dolefully-there/)

[Alistair Maclean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [“The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/the-point-i-make-is-simply-that-cruelty-and-hate-and-intolerance-are/)

[Alistair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [“I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/i-should-have-listened-to-hunslett-again-i-should-have-listened-to/)

[Alistair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [“He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions that might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/he-must-have-courage-not-the-physical-courage-required-on-a/)

[Alistair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [“She was still doing forty knots, driving in under the guns of the enemy, guns at maximum depression, when "A" magazine blew up, blasted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/she-was-still-doing-forty-knots-driving-in-under-the-guns-of-the/)

[Alistair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/she-had-the-best-kind-of-courage-or-maybe-the-worst-kind-the-kind/)

[Alistair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/i-m-not-a-novelist-i-m-a-storyteller-there-is-no-art-in-what-i-do-no/)

[Alistair Maclean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

> [“Every man is what environment and heredity make him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-maclean/every-man-is-what-environment-and-heredity-make-him/)

[Alistair MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-maclean/)

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