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The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of thei...
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Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve be...
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The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.
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Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I...
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I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.
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For weeks Charlie had been singing the same song over and over again.
“Dinah won’t you b...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Try to see things differently - It's the only way to get a clearer perspective on the world and ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each charac...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the c...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the t...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that somet...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably in...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to t...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Don Quixote - the famous literary madman - fought windmills. People think he saw giants when he look...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my sp...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN You have the soul of a corporation," a teacher once told him. It was meant as an insult, but he took...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Walls don't fall without effort.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like thi...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, b...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel t...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Griping is for those without a plan of action...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. "Roland would have never touched me like that." Connor...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by ly...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was suppos...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we hav...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against childr...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Nice socks.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN You can't imagine what it's like to be torn between darkness and light- to be a traitor no matter wh...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would kno...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Life is like a bad haircut. At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer rememb...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Look behind you now.
Do you feel in your heart a slight hastening of its beat, and a powerful s...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Cities are never random.
No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows ou...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN ...the first sign of civilization is always trash.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Well, she could learn self control tomorrow. Today she wanted pizza.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN If the yacht's sails were wind-tattered, if its polished brass and varnished wood were scarred from ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Love turns a heart to crystal,” said Mikey. “Much more valuable, but much more fragile.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN His existence had always been comfortable, he had always held a clear picture of himself, his duties...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN He felt a fluttering inside his chest that he mistook for an air pocket - probably left from when he...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world.”
Both Nick and Mikey ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the ti...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Bring on the dancing bear!
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Then Jix locked eyes with him and said very calmly, "If you hit her, I will open my mouth wide enoug...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Allie took Nick and Mikey into the vault, and they sat there, a summit meeting of three questionable...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Your friend Mikey knew what my touch could do, but he didn’t tell me. He turned me into a murderer...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.”
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NEAL SHUSTERMAN If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have bel...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how har...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN So the gods must mean something else,” said Jix.
“God, not gods!” insisted Johnnie.
...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Mooooon!” said the Ogre. “Tranquility …” Then he pointed at the full moon. “Neil Armstrong...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, w...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I remember the first time I saw you,” Allie said.
“I thought you smelled me first.”
...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to bel...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN You can't change laws without first changing human nature.'
-Nurse Greta

You can't c...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, w...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?
NEAL SHUSTERMAN What we perceive as art, the universe perceives as directions.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN It's a curse to see all that might happen but never know what will.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Man, Grandma, what big hair you have."
"The better to style with, my dear.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN ...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN ...You know something, don't you?"
"I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specif...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN You look spectacluar, Cam.' She smoothes out his shirt and straightens his tie. 'You look like the s...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W...
PATRICIA NEAL I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can...
NEAL STEPHENSON Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to ...
NEAL BOORTZ Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving...
NEAL BARNARD I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.
LARRY NEAL In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their ...
PATRICIA NEAL Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c...
NEAL STEPHENSON Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to ...
NEAL STEPHENSON From long experience in places like Afghanisatan and Chechnya, Sokolov recognised, in the black jiha...
NEAL STEPHENSON Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
NEAL STEPHENSON A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
JOHN NEAL Choice strengthens all.
NEAL PRESCOT Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there...
NEAL CASSADY A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
PATRICIA NEAL The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
LEONARD NEAL Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events,...
NEAL STEPHENSON A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
PATRICIA NEAL Who knew that dog saliva can mend a broken heart?
JENNIFER NEAL Disappearing can be quite the coping mechanism for those of us who fear abandonment the very most of...
JENNIFER NEAL She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what s...
NEAL STEPHENSON Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.
RICHARD NEAL With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favo...
NEAL ASHER Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citi...
RICHARD NEAL I'm just getting older and better.
NEAL SCHON Cerner is a company that just celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1999.
NEAL PATTERSON I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also muc...
NEAL BARNARD Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroi...
NEAL ASHER How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do ...
NEAL BOORTZ More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised t...
RICHARD NEAL They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them...
NEAL STEPHENSON The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and...
NEAL STEPHENSON If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical techn...
NEAL ASHER It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish an...
NEAL ASHER Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, el...
RICHARD NEAL Cerner's focus over the last 20 years has been to provide healthcare, predominately healthcare p...
NEAL PATTERSON The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number ...
NEAL BOORTZ If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a r...
NEAL BARNARD Gold is the corpse of value...
NEAL STEPHENSON To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.
NEAL BARNARD The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all nat...
NEAL BARNARD It felt like we were pouring gas on the fire the whole night. I think W&J is the best team in the co...
BRIAN NEAL Brooke is definitely a player to watch. She's very exciting at both ends of the court. We need her t...
BRIAN NEAL We settled for jump shots in the second half. We didn't play with the same composure the last five m...
BRIAN NEAL Leigh stepped up and took the ball hard to the basket. That got W&J re-established while we got away...
BRIAN NEAL If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force f...
NEAL BOORTZ For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ult...
NEAL MCDONOUGH The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has...
NEAL STEPHENSON For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take...
NEAL STEPHENSON A master can tell you what he thinks of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.
PATRICIA NEAL A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
PATRICIA NEAL A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be goo...
JOHN NEAL Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.
JENNIFER NEAL The FOP is a fine fraternal organization, but when it comes to negotiate a contract, we are the Team...
JIMMY NEAL To the extent that a Phillips curve exists, it's a moveable feast.
NEAL SOSS My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more ther...
NEAL ASHER People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable d...
RICHARD NEAL It's the proverbial leak in the dike. Does that (Japan trip) make it more likely? Yes.
NEAL PILSON Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked int...
NEAL BARNARD A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use ...
NEAL BARNARD While they seem to be willing to pay the cost of housing hurricane victims, it is not clear that FEM...
JEFF NEAL We now have evidence that Saddam Hussein is in possession of cartoon trucks. Because (they) are cart...
NEAL POLLACK Cerner has significant growth opportunities. We believe there is leverage with HNA Millennium and in...
NEAL PATTERSON All Wyoming residents deserve affordable health care. Wyoming should look at other states with simil...
DAN NEAL Hell will freeze over before this CEO implements another employee benefit in this culture.
NEAL PATTERSON I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.
LARRY NEAL One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's social...
NEAL STEPHENSON The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well...
NEAL STEPHENSON If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the ...
NEAL BOORTZ The people we've got now, they're tired of losing. They've got the winning mentality now.
ALEX NEAL That was the easiest to score from.
ALEX NEAL It was kind of a street brawl.
ALEX NEAL Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.
NEAL STEPHENSON The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislat...
NEAL BOORTZ Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to den...
NEAL BOORTZ Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivi...
NEAL BOORTZ It's going to be very competitive. That's why you have to rely on your innovation and your speed.
NEAL HUNTER This is still a very marketable crop. Almost every year you have something
NEAL FISHER followers of Karl Marx
NEAL BOORTZ Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.
RICHARD NEAL (Myers) did a good job on the inside. She and Julie Hayes limited the touches that Jackie Weaver got...
DALE NEAL I want to be very careful I don't minimize the event because if it's your car or your home, it's not...
CHRIS NEAL A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the po...
NEAL BOORTZ They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, cert...
NEAL STEPHENSON It could be a very hazardous job. You are going up and down ladders all day and sometimes climbing o...
CHRIS NEAL Flood stage is at 13 feet. At 14 feet it starts overflowing into the vineyards. When it reaches 15 f...
NEAL O'HAIRE The mosquitoes become infected, and you can create a reservoir of West Nile virus in that local regi...
NEAL COHEN It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.
NEAL STEPHENSON Sometimes we just get in these little modes ... where we don't hustle as much. Then we get that one ...
CONNIE NEAL She skated great, but emotionally it was a very low-key thing. It's coming up again.
NEAL MARSHALL Warmer than normal Januarys have a penchant for producing surprisingly strong payroll numbers.
NEAL SOSS These regulations aren't about stopping a Wal-Mart. These regulations are about making Stafford a be...
NEAL CUNNINGHAM Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say thi...
DIANE NEAL Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently a...
NEAL STEPHENSON Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything ...
NEAL STEPHENSON Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepi...
NEAL STEPHENSON The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness
NEAL STEPHENSON Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.
NEAL STEPHENSON All these beefy Caucasians with guns. Get enough of them together,looking for the America they alway...
NEAL STEPHENSON The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right n...
NEAL STEPHENSON Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relati...
NEAL STEPHENSON All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or somet...
NEAL STEPHENSON When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technol...
NEAL STEPHENSON The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in ano...
NEAL STEPHENSON Shit, if I took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done.
NEAL STEPHENSON He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading sta...
NEAL STEPHENSON It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,” Vic says, looking through his magic sight. “Five g...
NEAL STEPHENSON ..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this pla...
NEAL STEPHENSON When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.
NEAL STEPHENSON We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your...
NEAL STEPHENSON This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”

Juanita shrugs. “What'...
NEAL STEPHENSON Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.
NEAL STEPHENSON Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big ol...
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