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I like to know things. I'm hungry for knowledge.
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Spread love and understanding, Reacher said. Use force if necessary.
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The driver wanted Reacher more than he wanted an undamaged front bumper.
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I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.
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I try not to look at my writing near bedtime, because it will fire my brain up.
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Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.
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Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.
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No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
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I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.
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The first day is always the best, because you haven't screwed anything up yet. It's a gorgeous feeling.
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Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.
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Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.
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Overwhelming force indiscriminately applied, not giving up on it well after he was sure no more was required.
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I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
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People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.
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Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.
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The cop climbed out of his car exactly four minutes before he got shot. He moved like he knew his fate in advance.
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You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.
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That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.
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I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.
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Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of telltale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.
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Reacher hated turning back. He liked to press on, dead ahead, whatever. Everyone's life needed an organizing principle, and relentless forward motion was Reacher's.
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Here is the fundamental reality about the writing business. It's lonely. You spend all your time writing and then wondering whether what you just wrote is any good.
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Remember, I'm not making this up. Reacher is real. He exists. This is what he is up to, right now. That's why I can't change anything — this is just the way it is.
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Jack Reacher stayed alive, because he got cautious. He got cautious because he heard an echo from his past. He had a lot of past, and the echo was from the worst part of it.
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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Swami Vivekananda
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October 29, 1954
(age 69)
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