"I would have to say the novel 'War……" — Douglas Preston
"I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors."
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21 Quotes by Douglas Preston
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The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.
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One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.
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The Monster’s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end,…
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My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned…
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Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat…
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Retribution is just outstanding.
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Hubris and science are incompatible.
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I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room…
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My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.
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There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research…
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There is nothing inherently wrong about science.
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I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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