"Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?"

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Source : S. M. Stirling (2007). “A Meeting at Corvallis: A Novel of the Change”, p.728, Penguin

S.M. Stirling

#People Quotes #Strange Quotes #Killing Quotes

“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”
“Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.”
“Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.”
“A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.”
“For me, family has always come first.”
“I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting them in heaven, how much soever they had injured me on earth: had no disposition to insist upon any confession from them, in order to reconciliation, and the exercise of love and kindness to them. Oh! it is an emblem of heaven itself, to love all the world with a love of kindness, forgiveness, and benevolence...”
“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”
“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”

Source : Janet Evanovich (1988). “Thanksgiving”, Loveswept

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