Peter David Quotes

#1. If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

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#2. Running from horrors doesn't help. The only way to deal with them is to meet them head-on.

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#3. No. It happened. But if it simplifies your life to disbelieve it, then do so.

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#4. I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

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#5. Remember what we wrote? 'And just as I cannot imagine how I survived the past without you ... I cannot imagine a future without you.' Remember? Well, I'm the future without her, buddy boy, and I can tell you right now that it's not something you're going to relish.

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#6. Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

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#7. At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels.'

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#8. Why (he wondered rhetorically) do people who have a position that's being attacked constantly state that they have a right to say it, as if the right itself-rather than the statement-has been challenged?

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#9. When your heart's been cut out, how's it going to feel knowing that you're the one who wielded the knife?

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#10. Good enough, never is.

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#11. Faith is an admirable trait. It's good to have faith in another person. But when faith is used as a substitute for reality, then it becomes a crutch for refusing to deal with that reality.

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#12. He smelled meat burning and realized that it was him.

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#13. Well, there are times when we know where people are, yes? This would not be one of those times.

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#14. when it comes to the caprices and manipulations of the gods or God, whichever philosophy you may embrace, we are all of us merely pawns in their games, rather than players.

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#15. I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

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#16. Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

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#17. he was literally holding his face together.

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#18. Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

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#19. When ... has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'

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#20. A moment later the scowling face of Admiral Jellico appeared on the screen. He looked as ill-humored as ever. Privately, Calhoun felt that somebody should send an away team into Jellico's ass, to determine just what had crawled up there and died years ago.

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#21. I simply wish to offer my fart-helt apologies, sir, for you're just an honest man doin' your job, and I'm a dishonest lad doin' mine, and of the two, you have far more reason to hang your head high than does I.

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#22. These, of course, are far more enlightened times, when it is only acceptable to believe that not being a Christian is likely to mean one is a criminal only if one is a Muslim (or at least so we've been assured by people who claim to know such things),

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#23. Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

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#24. Some time later, I sat in the wine cellar, staring at the walls while cradling a wineskin in my lap like a child, murmuring over and over as if lulling the child to sleep, 'I am shat upon. I am shat upon'.

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#25. There was more barley than beef in his stew.

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#26. There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

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#27. To explore strange new worlds ... and assimilate them.
To seek out new life forms ... and new civilizations ... and assimilate them.
To boldly go where no Borg has gone before ... and assimilate them.

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#28. And then he raised the welder to his face and flicked the switch.

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#29. In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.

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#30. They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

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#31. If I have a bow and arrow, Commander, I don't shoot a padded shaft to my target's left in order to express my annoyance. I fire a steel-tipped arrow into his leg.

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#32. It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.

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#33. To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru ... sucks to be you.

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#34. Thus it has always been: Only in death do worthless people have worth.

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#35. Right, wrong - those are words thrown around by those what is in power in order to sit on the backs of those what ain't.

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#36. It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

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#37. What do we think of sex on television? Frankly, I think it's a pain. For one thing, the cable box gets wedged into your back and gets real uncomfortable ...

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#38. As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

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#39. There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

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#40. What the hell kind of person was capable of sounding erudite while losing blood out of his face by the pint?

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#41. We're all of us dying ... from the moment we're born

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#42. My name is Tragic Solitude 000. I am the Keeper of the Ark.

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#43. Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

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#44. Not that he wanted to say that. It would make it sound as if he wanted to blame her..
Women were very complicated creatures. He suddenly realised he was running through his head a list of everything he considered preferable to women. It was a long and most impressive imaginary document.

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#45. The measure of a gen'leman is how he treats ladies. They can call themselves what they wants, but if what they says don't match up with how they behaves, well, what they do says far more of who they are than what they says they are does, if you gets my drift.

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#46. Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn't from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death.

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#47. My name is Abraham van Helsing. And I've seen more than you can possibly believe exist." "I don't recognize your accent, boy. Where do you come from?" "I'm Dutch." "You sound more German than Dutch." "My mother is German. I'm told I got the accent from her. But I am Dutch.

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#48. Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

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#49. All part of the service.

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#50. I'm not supposed to be here, Xy.

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#51. Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

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#52. And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

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