Top 30 John Jakes Quotes
#1. He shook two cigarettes from a crushed paper
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#2. And I looked, and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
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#3. Davis was especially scored for allegedly favoring foreigners and Jews in his administration.
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#4. He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future
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#5. No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.
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#6. The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.
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#7. 1891-1892 Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles. 1883 The New Colossus by EMMA LAZARUS, written to raise funds to complete the Statue of Liberty
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#8. God! he swore silently. That man was ever born to be torn and troubled by women!
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#10. Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.
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#12. Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man accepted the dangers, the element of chance. If he didn't, he won nothing.
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#13. Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.
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#14. Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself
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#15. It is too late. I love him. I know it may bring me grief, and I can't do a thing about it. Mr. Congreve was right about love being a frailty of the mind.
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#16. I don't know if there is any place on this earth that I belong.
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#17. The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans
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#18. Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.
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#19. Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell
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#20. They had thought him such a 'good' man. They should have learned it was dangerous to trust appearances or take strangers at their word in this shit-hole world.
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#21. While Julia's down in Long Branch looking after Molly, you're supposed to
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#22. There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.
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#23. The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
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#24. Perhaps
the insight came suddenly
perhaps love existed in its truest, deepest form when one partner saw into the sul of the other and never shrank from what was discovered there.
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#25. Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
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#26. the public was tired of divisive politics, tired of radical social programs.
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#27. That was an explanation, not an excuse.
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#28. Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.
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#29. Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one.
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#30. He and Marie wandered through a square
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