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We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.


Dean Koontz

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DEYTH BANGER This is a result of historic proportions.
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MARY FRANCES BERRY American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of m...
JOHN MELLENCAMP Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
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DEAN KOONTZ Dean Koontz is good in the silence makes silence... then he just attacks!
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DEYTH BANGER It's a gross misrepresentation to say gays were omitted from the grassroots report. African American...
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ADAM COHEN Arroyo may be weak, but she is safe and is in no danger of being removed by force during the first s...
EARL PARRENO You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were r...
ALTON BROWN It sent a message to America, because bombings were the only way Americans would listen.
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DEAN KOONTZ There were no computers retrieved, but there were indications of equipment taken out, there were com...
FEDERICO OPINION I was optimistic, because I saw how he touched them, how they were inspired by him and his success. ...
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DANA ROHRABACHER It's my opinion, Historic words of Logic and Peace did not just survive, but were protected just as ...
QUARIN Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolu...
JOHN BOEHNER I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being whe...
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JUAN VARGAS It's devastating because of how kids were sold out today.
CLAUDIA VERCELLOTTI My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
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BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL I'm just relieved. It really doesn't change anything. They are still gone, but were done with this p...
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BILL SCOTT We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we share...
JOAN DIDION We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we s...
JOAN DIDION We were characters out of a movie. We were thoroughly alive. And we were absolutely beautiful.
KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND We don't even know if there were people who were visiting from nearby areas when the tragedy struck.
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GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Of course Americans will sympathize more with the ones who were assassinated.
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DANIEL CRAMBLETT Before we were leaving, I looked to the right and saw a broken bottle and realized it was a Molotov ...
BETH KIVEL Every day, Jeff Adams and I were kicked out of the track because they were saying our tires would da...
CHANTAL PETITCLERC In my mind, the core issue has always been prevention. My views were shaped by my experiences with w...
FAYE WATTLETON Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as l...
NEIL NAKADATE If you build a replica, it is still a replica. The magic of a historic structure is that it was stan...
CHARLES SULLIVAN Both teams were pretty tight, because this was a big game. There were lots of fouls, but this was a ...
PENNY GEINGER We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of phys...
DAVID SEDARIS Suddenly the cocktail cabinet closed, we were left to cart our own cases, and the limousine was canc...
NEIL HARRISON This appears to be another senseless tragedy, but it was not random, ... knew who they were after.
BILL BELL We were really excited coming into this meet because we knew they were ranked ahead of us, but we kn...
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BILL TEAGUE When I heard the Americans ripped down the statue of Saddam I was happy because I thought we were fi...
ALI JABAR There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER They've been rewriting the show and revamping it, but I would think it would need a massive overhaul...
MICHAEL RIEDEL We will never forget the tragedy of that day, because we're Americans and we'll always have a free w...
BILL NEMES They were going to ram it through the east side of Vancouver, through historic Chinatown, and do a b...
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SEAN MCCORMACK They were very, very scared. They were able to get out, but they were very shaken up.
MARCY MCGINNIS A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.
HENRY HALLAM People don't think of nuns as pioneers, but because they were free from having to care for a family,...
JACQUELINE LANDRY I don't think it's racism, I think it's economic. But poverty disproportionately affects African-Ame...
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REP. ROBERTA WILLIS The metals looked as though they were going to do well because of the dollar weakness, but they kind...
JAMES STEEL The metals looked as though they were going to do well because of the dollar weakness, but they kind...
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TIM PARRINELLO Patriotic Americans were not only ‘True Framers of the Constitution’ but also ‘Finishers for F...
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JOEY GIORDANO We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.
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THERESA BUCHTA The runway splayed out at her feet and at its height were the limits of the world.
THERESA BUCHTA "VICTORIA" SONGS OF MY SELFIE It was just getting out of hand because we couldn't identify who folks were.
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DONNA PROCTOR It hit all of us like a sledgehammer. The kids were so happy. ... They were wonderful. You just can'...
DAVID MAY A culture that pushes God out of its world cannot expect to feel secure as if God were in it.
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DEAN KOONTZ It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear...
DEAN KOONTZ You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
DEAN KOONTZ From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...
DEAN KOONTZ That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...
DEAN KOONTZ She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...
DEAN KOONTZ For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
DEAN KOONTZ One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I...
DEAN KOONTZ I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
DEAN KOONTZ That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.
DEAN KOONTZ Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
DEAN KOONTZ The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
DEAN KOONTZ Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
DEAN KOONTZ it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a...
DEAN KOONTZ Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ...
DEAN KOONTZ Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c...
DEAN KOONTZ There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ...
DEAN KOONTZ He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s...
DEAN KOONTZ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
DEAN KOONTZ He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ...
DEAN KOONTZ His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cat...
DEAN KOONTZ The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
DEAN KOONTZ But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
DEAN KOONTZ You amaze me and scare me. I can’t figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, b...
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