15 Quotes & Sayings By Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith is the author of the award-winning thriller, "The Crow Road." He is also the author of "The Chosen Few," a novel about the Irish Republican Army, which was published in 2008. His other novels include "The Second Woman," "Friendship's Half-Lives," and "The Love of Lies." His short stories have appeared in numerous publications including Granta, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. He currently lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you...
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Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it. Andrew Smith
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Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior Andrew Smith
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Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex. Andrew Smith
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You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you’ll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times. Andrew Smith
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I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we. Andrew Smith
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When I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind's eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat for hours after returning from space, just eating ice cream and watching the people swirl around him, enraptured by the simple yet miraculous fact they they were there and alive in that moment, and so was he. Andrew Smith
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Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon! " at that point, Apollo would never have happened. Andrew Smith
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Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is a rationale for going back. Unless we could find a way to take everyone. Andrew Smith
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Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it. Andrew Smith
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A world between my fingers. Andrew Smith
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It's no wonder I became a monster, too. Andrew Smith
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Not a very pretty world, is it?"" Which one? Andrew Smith
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I am going to build something big for you. Andrew Smith