162 Quotes by Don Winslow

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    Brian is obese, like round, like the Pillsbury doughboy on a Twinkie binge.

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    Why do women love to talk about love?” Giorgio asks. “Why don’t men, is more the question,” Ana says.

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    The Mexicans have finally found a drug that white trash likes and can afford. And one thing you ain’t never gonna run out of is white trash.

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    Tell me you don’t want to do those women on Fox News,” Jimena says. “Tell me you don’t,” Giorgio counters. “Anyway, of course I do. I want to convert them through the subversive power of the orgasm.” “So it would be a political act,” Jimena says. “I am willing to sacrifice myself for the cause,” Giorgio answers.

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    A border is something that divides us but also unites us; there can be no real wall, just as there is no wall that divides the human soul between its best impulses and its worst.

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    The toll of the “Mall shooting” was horrific, but not as bad as it could have been. Five dead and fourteen wounded. The aftermath was the usual – thoughts and prayers and talk about gun control and mental health and then absolutely nothing was done.

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    Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. ‘You can come down the evolutionary ladder,’ Chon has observed to Ben and O; ’you can’t climb up.

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    This look like college to you?” Malone asks. “You see coeds, Frisbees, man buns? You don’t take notes, you don’t write anything down. Only thing you ever write are your 5s. Notes you take on duty are discoverable. Some defense attorney shithead will deliberately misinterpret them and ram them up your ass on the stand.

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    It is high time for us to arise from sleep. – Romans 13:11.

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