Eric Van Lustbader Quotes

#1. Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.

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#2. We're brought up with a kind of romanticism that's so false it leads us astray. Falling in love and marriage is forever. The movies, then TV told us that, even - especially - the commercials.

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#3. I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.

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#4. A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.

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#5. The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.

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#6. after just having finished a breakfast of soft-boiled eggs, toast, and coffee. Her room was huge, more like a

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#7. Take the hand you're dealt and then finesse it,

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#8. Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence - a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.

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#9. Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

Sharon Shinn

#10. eerie patterns and lurid colors. Every few seconds

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#11. Knowing the man responsible for your success is in the mirror is a high that you can never buy

Desmond Ong

#12. Laughing at what you didn't have and never would was better than letting it depress you,

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#13. Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us.
We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try.

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#14. And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace ...

Louisa May Alcott

#15. tranquillity is only one aspect of the harmony of life. And harmony is what all people strive to achieve. Harmony is the basis of a clear mind, of a good and powerful karma.

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#16. Any man who is capable of being offended or insulted after the age of forty is either immature or a damned hypocrite." (Senator)

Leonard Holton

#17. I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

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#18. I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

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#19. I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.

Howard Zinn

#20. Only in the stillness of thought can decisions be properly made.

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#21. Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital. - Boris Karpov

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#22. Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.

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#23. To abandon duty is to destroy that which makes any individual unique and capable of prodigious feats.

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#24. memorable entertainment package takes old-school Hollywood theory and modern electronic know-how." Borz

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#25. Survival is not enough. Sardine

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#26. Boris come himself?" Vanov laughed. "Surely you're joking. Preparations for his wedding.

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#27. To survive is not enough. - Bujun saying

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#28. I change my thoughts, I change my world.

Norman Vincent Peale

#29. In Morocco, he was back in his element, a shark moving through deep and dangerous waters. But for thousands of years sharks have been bred to survive dark and dangerous waters. So too, Leonid Arkadin.

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#30. Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.

Cherie Carter-Scott

#31. haragei - the art of balance and power emanating from the lower belly. Haragei was the basis of all Japanese martial arts, from sumo to karate to the almost extinct harakei. The

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#32. My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

Leigh Steinberg

#33. Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

Garry Wills

#34. without facts, rumor, innuendo, intimation, and supposition have a way of conflating into myth.

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