I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often. by David Baldacci

I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

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It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you ma... by David Baldacci

It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

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You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho by David Baldacci

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

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The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

military soldier writing

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in... by David Baldacci

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

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People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

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People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nat... by David Baldacci

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

human-nature share people

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

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Trapped in a trap of your own making. by David Baldacci

Trapped in a trap of your own making.

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

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A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect? by David Baldacci

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

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Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as huma... by David Baldacci

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

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Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility. by David Baldacci

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

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Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

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Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted... by David Baldacci

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

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All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

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See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit.’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner

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Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.

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