Top 18 Pat Frank Quotes
#1. The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County.
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years.
So ended The Day.
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#2. How can we cash out-of-town checks when don't know whether a town's still there?
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#3. It was strange, she thought, pedaling steadily, that it should require a holocaust to make her own life worth living.
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#4. 'Legs are for men's pleasure, breasts are for babies'.' - Lib McGovern
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#5. It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.
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#6. [He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man. Yet it was nothing new. It had been like this at some point in every civilization and on every continent. There were human jackals for every human disaster.
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#7. When he reached the last hole he saw, far to the west, a series of rockets bloom in the sky. He watched their green and yellow and red petals arch across the horizon, and fade into the gloom of the earth. It was very beautiful, but he recognized them for Chinese rockets.
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#8. I don't want money. What the hell's money good for? You can't drive it and you can't eat it and it won't even fix a flat.
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#9. Out of death, life; an immutable truth
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#10. Whatever it is out there, is better equipped than you are. It can see better and hear better and smell better. All you're got on it is brains. Your only chance of getting it is
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#11. It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.
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#12. 'I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' - Lib McGovern
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#13. Randy felt relieved. He looked out over the river, contemplating his ignorance of women and the peace of evening.
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#14. I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished ... when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.
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#15. If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.
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#16. Small nations, when treated as equals, become the firmest of allies." It
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#17. He was tough as an antique ivory figurine, which has withstood the viscissitudes of centuries and can accept more.
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#18. There's an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.
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