Keith R.A. DeCandido Quotes

#1. Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything."
"Says the man who'd just punch the haystack.

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#2. I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here.

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#3. The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.

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#4. You get to help people in ways that I can't even imagine. Hell, *you get to help people.*

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#5. You people did a good thing."
"That's what we do," Nate said quietly.

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#6. I'd rather be prepared for one we don't have to fight than not be prepared for one we have to.

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#7. Dean, you've been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we're supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now you're being skeptical?

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#8. The trick is to recognize the flaw in yourself and work to correct it.

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#9. And the next time Ash needs a favor, he can go bite me.

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#10. What kind of a house doesn't have salt? Low sodium freaks!

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#11. Death is the one foe that everyone faces, the one foe that never loses.

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#12. Who's the genius who thought replacing Dick Clark with Ryan Seacrest was a good idea?

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#13. He never feared anything again.
Because he knew the secret.
Life was cheap.

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#14. I get that
but why replace him with this guy? I mean, Dick Clark did American Bandstand. All this guy's done is deny that he's gay.

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#15. The world tells us what we need to know when we are ready to know it and not before. That's the way of things.

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#16. All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception?

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#17. Of course, you won't confirm or deny it, which means I'm probably right, since if I was wrong, you'd be gloating about it.

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#18. What is that *smell*?"
Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air.

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#19. Dude, you are not equating being on that lame-ass Star Search wannabe show with hosting American Bandstand, are you?

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#20. They were handy to have around, Nate's little gang. They were that wonderful combination of talented and noble. The former was useful, while the latter made it so incredibly easy to poke them with a metaphorical stick.

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#21. She's one you *really* care about, isn't she?"
Eliot shook his head. "How can you read other people so well, and completely misread me?"
Frowning, Sophie asked, "What do you mean?"
Looking right into her eyes, Eliot said, "I care about *all* of them.

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#22. Age of the geek, baby!

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#23. Currently he was going through the entire Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout, He'd just finished Murder by the Book and was in the process of downloading Triple Jeopardy to his e-reader when the alarm went off.

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#24. Life was, in fact, cheap.
If life was such a glorious, magnificent, wonderful thing, then it wouldn't be so easy to take it away.
If life was a great gift, then he wouldn't be able to kill a fellow human being with one hand ...

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#25. He was convinced that the purse was like that stupid phone booth thing on that TV show Hardison liked: bigger on the inside than the outside.

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#26. You're not mutation, you are evolution.

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