Michael Marshall Quotes

#1. It wasn't like the World Trade Center, something vile and astonishing within our own borders, happening to people who'd saved coins of the same currency in their piggybanks when they were children. I knew intellectually that shouldn't make a difference, but it seemed to.

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#2. The food chain has victims at both ends: even rapists and murderers need someone to look down on, and kid killers will do nicely.

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#3. what people write reflects what they believe - fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at you for expressing in real life.

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#4. You get up, you go to work, you come home, you eat food that's very similar to what you had yesterday or last week, you sit in front of the shows you always watch, and finally you go to the same old bed.

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#5. We search for fault because it let's God off the hook, and without Him we don 't know where to turn.

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#6. What's true is immaterial. It's what people believe. Belief is the truth.

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#7. I don't find it surprising that super-old people are so odd and grumpy. Half their friends are dead, they feel like shit most of the time, and the next major event in their lives is going to be their last. They

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#8. Otherwise I'll just shoot you and take what I need and you're in no position to whine because the gun I'm holding was bought from this very establishment.

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#9. Surely there was nothing more pathetic than screwing up your own suicide.

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#10. Just because we are capable of art didn't what lay in front of him could be dismissed as aberration, that we could take what we admired and fence that off as human, dismissing the rest as monstrous. The same hands committed both. Brains don't undermine the savagery. They made us better at it.

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#11. We're so used to being edited, so infected with the sleight of hand of the media, that we're more aware of what's been added than of what has been taken away.

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