1,151 Quotes by James Patterson

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    You see, one of the best things about reading is that you’ll always have something to think about when you’re not reading.

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    Seize what’s been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

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    Ray Bradbury had once written that “living at risk is jumping off a cliff, and building your wings on the way down.” Sampson.

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    Normal behavior, therefore, is when we collectively believe that the circumstances justify the behavior. Likewise, abnormal behavior is when we don’t.

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    You’re lucky if you find something you like to do, and it’s a miracle if somebody will pay you to do it.

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    To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” – Theodore Roosevelt.

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    And so now, under a Colorado sky so blue it hurt my eyes, we arrived at the terrible truth. You can plot your escape, you can ditch your life and your family, and you can race down a two-lane highway in a stolen car. But there are things you can never out run.

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    Fang looked at the newest bird kid. Dylan was an inch or two taller than he was, and somewhat heavier built, though he still had the long, lean look of a human-avian hybrid-you couldn’t make bricks fly.

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