Vince Flynn Quotes

#1. It was not possible to reason with unreasonable people

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#2. It's what every writer needs: a daybed.

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#3. One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

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#4. Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

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#5. I don't need men like Ross on my side. I just need them to get out of my way. (Mitch Rapp)

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#6. Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

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#7. People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

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#8. It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

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#9. Revenge is more wild, less calculated ... deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

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#10. I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

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#11. I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

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#12. I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

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#13. Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake
one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

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#14. My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

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#15. I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

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#16. No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****."
"I feel like s****

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#17. just let Mitch be Mitch

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#18. Any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

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#19. I don't want to hear another word about my attitude. i don't want anyone looking over my shoulder, and I sure as hell don't want anyone second-guessing what I do. (Mitch Rapp)

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#20. People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

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#21. I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business
the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

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#22. A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

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#23. Abu, torturing guys and breaking them down is not something I look forward to, although your case is a little different. I think you're such a despicable fuck that I might actually enjoy our little session. (Mitch Rapp to Abu Haggani)

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#24. [He] saw communism for the sham that it was
a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

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#25. We're all dying, just some of us sooner than others.

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#26. or the trunk, taken somewhere and stripped naked,

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#27. A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

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#28. No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

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#29. If you're not busy living, you're dying.

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#30. I just look at what's going on in the world.

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#31. There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

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#32. When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

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#33. I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.

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#34. It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.

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