"When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this……" — Douglas Preston
"When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea."
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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 would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of…
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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.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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