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He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.


Frederick Forsyth

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FREDERICK SMITH Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips ov...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things nee...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts y...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are bec...
FREDERICK BUECHNER A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
FREDERICK FARRAR Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he ...
FREDERICK BAILES Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS