Top 13 Alistair MacLean Quotes
#1. She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.
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#2. There was such a thing as luck, but to acknowledge its existence was to hold two fingers up to fate.
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#3. I am not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do. No mystique.
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#4. The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They have been with us since the world began and are still with us, in every country in the world.
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#5. what would be left of it by that time - would be in the Kola
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#6. 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 for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.
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#7. The first thing I noticed was the gun in his hands, and it wasn't the sort of gun a beginner carries around with him. A big dull black German Mauser 7.63. One of those economical guns; the bullet goes clear through three people at once.
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#8. Women, I thought: if they fell over a cliff and thought there was company waiting at the bottom, they'd comb their hair on the way down.
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#9. 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 Hunslett was to have time for all the sleep in the world.
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#11. We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned sight more civilized than we are - bring them so-called progress, which harms them, so-called change, which harms them, so-called civilization, which harms them even more, and desease, which kills them.
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#12. I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
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