"I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies."

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Source : "Promised Land". Book by Robert B. Parker, www.theguardian.com. 1976.

Robert B. Parker

#Bullets Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Harm Quotes

“By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.”

Source : Ernest Vincent Wright (2015). “Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E””, p.129, BoD – Books on Demand
“What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.”
“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”
“'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.”

Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 20, 2013.
“Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.”
“What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?”
“The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.”

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