Daniel Wallace Quotes

#1. Then there was a woman, in her mid-fifties about, who in almost every respect was perfectly normal. But this was the way with these people: in so many respects they were normal, there was just that one thing, that one terrible thing.

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#2. This wasn't life, of course. This was life support. This was what the medical world had fashioned to take the place of Purgatory.

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#3. Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.

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#4. You're not necessarily supposed to believe it ... You're just supposed to believe in it.

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#5. If it seems like he's going to die she'll call for me. This is how we talk. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. So

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#6. In fact, after a while it was the machines I was looking at, not my father at all. They had become him. They were telling me his story. Which

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#7. He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

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#8. When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

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#9. Heard it," I say.
"You were supposed to stop me," he says, clearly exhausted after the telling. "How many breaths do I have left? You don't want me to waste them on twice-told jokes, do you?

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#10. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

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#11. It was laid out much like any other town - thoughtlessly, and in haste. Here is where the rich people lived, and here the workers. This is where the white people shopped, and here was the special store for the Chinese, which had everything they could ever want, as long as they didn't want that much.

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#12. I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing at all. I'm doing the other thing.

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#13. What good is always being happy? Sadness hints at the possibility of a future reward.

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#14. This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

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#15. It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

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#16. They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

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#17. He says, You're an idiot. You couldn't get yourself arrested without me along to help.

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#18. Because in my mind - in the memory that has lodged itself imperturbably in my mind, my father resembles Abraham Lincoln, a man with long arms and deep pockets and dark eyes ...

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#19. He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true.

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#20. A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

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#21. It was said he could charm anyone, just by walking through the room. It was said he was blessed with a special power. But my father was humble, and he said it wasn't that at all. He just liked people, and people liked him. It was that simple, he said.

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#22. The story goes like this: he falls in love with Specter first, then he falls in love with Jenny Hill. L

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#23. Because you and Al have all the truth with you over there. Don't know what I'm talking about, I guess. My apologies to you who knows better.

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#24. How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can't realize what is already here, outside the car window?

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#25. His cars were his magic carpets.

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#26. Mine was a crazy dream- but what dream isn't crazy? Can a dream be a dream and be sensible? No. A sensible dream is a plan. Men like us dream, and our dreams come true because we believe in ourselves.

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#27. For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others, knowing that he was not his own man? "So,

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#28. Dreams are what keep a man going.

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#29. The rest of his hair was dark and full and healthy, and his part was one long straight line of pinkish scalp, a country road across his head.

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#30. Dying, he has that look dying people get in their eyes sometimes, happy and sad, tired and spiritually blessed, all at the same time.

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#31. There is no greater grief than that of a man with a broken heart who only just learned he had a heart at all.

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#32. You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

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#33. There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no chaos, there is harmony.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no death, there is the Force.

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#34. There were so many dead their spirits could no longer be contained in the darkness, and, like deer, their population had spilled over into parts of the town reserved for the living.

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#35. For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along. "Ah,

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#36. In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

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#37. We are part of an energy larger than ourselves, and we play roles in a cosmic fabric that outstrip our incarnate understanding.

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#38. For Ming Kai's nose - which, like so many Chinese organs, was advanced beyond the reckoning of his Caucasian brother -

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#39. Rachel tried to slap Mrs. Samuels when she said this, but she wasn't really sure where her face was and she missed, terribly.

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#40. The car is my father's magic carpet. Not only does it get him places, but it shows him places.

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#41. He had become simply Edward Bloom: Man. I'd caught him at a bad time in his life. And this was no fault of his own. It was simply that the world no longer held the magic that allowed him to live grandly within it. His

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#42. The ending is always a surprise.

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#43. Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

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#44. He was just changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward in. All

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#45. There is no passion. There is solely obsession.
There is no knowledge. There is solely conviction.
There is no purpose. There is solely will.
There is nothing ...
Only me.

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#46. Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.

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#47. People were so cheap there ... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

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