"That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now."
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"It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem."
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"I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away."
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"I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence."
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"I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets."
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"This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again."
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"Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms."
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"Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into."
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"People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do."
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"Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it."
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"Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces."
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"Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist."
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"I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past."
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"Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything."
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"I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on."
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"It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night." "How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night." "No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame."
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"My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever."
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"A calm environment is for after I finish work."
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"I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it."
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"For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader."
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