"And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me."

-- Gavin Douglas

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“When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.”
“You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.”
“There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. Thats almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.”

Source : "Rick Atkinson talks 'The Guns at Last Light'". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.
“Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.”
“There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.”

Source : "The Life-Long Sentence". Interview with with Tony Leuzzi, brooklynrail.org. July 15, 2014.
“In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.”
“Any type of commercialization or, like I said, watering that idea down would be so damaging and frankly, be pretty uninspiring to me, because the fact that every piece is like my dream thing that I just can't get enough of and am just so excited to wear, is just the whole point of it.”

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