Max Allan Collins Quotes

#1. She couldn't stop herself from grinning back at

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#2. Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr.,

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#3. Inside my head, I shit my pants.

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#4. Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. Potter Stewart,

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#5. I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren

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#6. Evelyn: Look, I ... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I ... am a librarian.
The Mummy (1999)

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#7. Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.

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#8. Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have to spray your fucking brains against the wall, too? Thanks!

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#9. If you're turned away from one road, there's always another
filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.

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#10. Evelyn: [drunk] You're wondering, 'What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?'
Rick: Yeah, something like that.

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#11. To get what you want, stop doing what isn't working. - Earl Warren

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#12. She was a big blonde woman with more curves than the highway out front and just the right number of hills and valleys.

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#13. People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?

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#14. Rick: Can you swim?
Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it.
Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

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#15. The goddamn kid just sat there and out of the blue thrust his middle finger in the air and waved it at Jon with a brazen defiance only ten-year-olds and Nazis can muster.

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#16. Eyes Only is more than just a voice and eyes on some cable hack ... it's more like a network. People who help Eyes Only, they're all loyal, and they don't talk to anybody about anything, if you're not one of them.

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#17. Absurdly, dead fish by the hundreds were washing ashore, their peaceful world disrupted by man's squabble.

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#18. for work these days; nobody had been hired in janitorial

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#19. Zigzag... don't bunch up. Weave like a drunk on New Year's... Got it?

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