Top 58 Marcus Sakey Quotes
#1. Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity.
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#2. We are never more clever than in the creation of ways to destroy ourselves.
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#3. She'd always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met.
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#4. Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.
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#5. Mom and Dad chatting around mouthfuls of steak while Junior used the scraps of his hamburger to buttress the walls of Fort French Fry.
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#6. Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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#7. Among them Senator Blake Crouch (D-Colo.), who last year became the first gifted member of the US Senate.
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#8. Cooper pulled out a high-backed stool, sat down, tapped out the beat on the bar with his fingertips. He'd heard once that the essence of country music was three chords and the truth. Well, the three-chords part still stands.
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#9. Data. That's what matters. That's what tells us something. But people want to see pictures. Supernova in vivid color. Even though scientifically it's useless.
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#10. Averaging the bids to arrive at a final price, the Leon
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#11. The glass wall behind must have blown out as well, four stories of lethal shards surfing the roar of air and fire.
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#12. The problem with looking for your glasses is that you don't have your glasses on while you're looking ...
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#13. I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last.
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#14. To pen a new history, one written in fire. And
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#15. No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.
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#16. It had been a surprise - and yeah, okay, a pleasure - to realize how very good he was at being bad.
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#17. Let us never yield to those who believe political power flows from the barrel of a gun, to
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#18. Our daughter is not going to an academy." I MISS MY SON, her sign had read. "Period. I don't care if she's tier one. I don't care if she's the first tier zero in history and can manipulate space-time while shooting lasers from her belly button. She is not going to an academy.
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#19. Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.
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#20. A city of unarmed dreamers huddling beneath angry skies.
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#21. But how do you teach a child to grasp that complexity? You teach them to grasp the style of thinking. There are no answers, only questions that shape your understanding, and which in turn reveal more questions.
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#22. NO TRESPASSING and SOLICITORS WARMLY GREETED WITH GUNFIRE signs,
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#23. Even Christ hadn't been able to sell salvation to contented sinners.
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#24. There was a rumor - a joke? Hard to tell at the DAR - that the fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible. Cooper didn't know about that, but they did make everyone look two weeks dead.
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#25. The problem with the best moment in your life is that every other moment is worse
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#26. Because artists are more dangerous than murderers. The most prolific serial killer might have dozens of victims, but poets can lay low entire generations.
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#27. That's insane," said a goateed kid in front of Ethan. "You're locking down the whole city to catch a couple of terrorists? That doesn't make any sense.
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#28. The world worked because people agreed to believe it worked.
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#29. And you'll need a leader to do it. A man of bold vision, one who promises you a world where you're not only safe - you're in charge. Not equal rights. Superiority for the superior.
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#30. You don't know that. And now we never will." "We're agents of the United States government, not some Third World dictator's private security force. That is not the way we work. We don't have
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#31. The nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached.
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#32. Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you how to write your book, but it helps you understand why things aren't working, or what kind of beat needs to come next.
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#34. fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible.
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#36. Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn't got it figured out yet, what the hell hope have the rest of us got?
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#37. The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.
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#38. You are going to find that the heights you've attained make for a long fall if you don't understand the mountain.
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#40. It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken.
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#41. No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples. Alongside
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#42. Cooper was halfway out of his chair with realizing he'd moved, his body on full combat alert. His mind spinning,
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#43. Cooper walked, slow and steady, four-four time in a world gone off measure.
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#44. But a sniper rifle was a matter of pure mechanics. Brace it, breathe properly, squeeze rather than pull the trigger, and it was just a projection of will across distance.
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#45. He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view
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#46. Around here, I'm pretty sure 'us' means Texans, and 'them' means the other seven billion on the planet.
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#47. He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.
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#48. A little." She set it on the counter. "But it's probably not a terrible idea. Just in case.
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#49. People don't want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges.
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#50. They were innocent people. They could just do things you couldn't imagine. I can see code, do you get it? Algorithms that confound straights are just patterns to me. They come in my dreams. I dream the most beautiful programs never written.
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#51. No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.
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#52. You want to change the world? Forget politics. Learn to code.
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#53. Much of anything. But put a series together and patterns emerged. Some were obvious: haircuts, weight gained or lost, fashion trends. Others required
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#54. Frightened people want action more than they want correct action. It's in the data.
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#55. In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
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#56. Just drop your jeans and gimme those genes.
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#57. Back when they had been teenagers who thought love was a noun, a thing you could possess.
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#58. That was the lure of wealth, he'd discovered: a throaty whisper in your ear that you were special, that it was all - this wine, this woman, this world - for you. That it in some way existed only so that you might partake of it.
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