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The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.Nelson DeMille
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Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.Nelson DeMille
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I tried to picture a bunch of guys in blue suits running around a beachside neighborhood, knocking on doors and flashing Fed creds. That should cause a stampede of illegal aliens heading south.Nelson DeMille
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Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take outmore enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.Nelson DeMille
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A lot of who you were in middle age was determined before you had a chance to manipulate, control, or eve understand the things around you. It was no mystery, he thought, why some old people's minds returned to their youth; the wonder of those years, the discoveries, the first experience with the dirty secret of death, and the first stirrings of lust and love were indelible, drawn in luminous colors on clean canvas. Indeed, the first sex act was so mind-boggling that most people could still remember it clearly twenty, thirty, sixty years later.Nelson DeMille
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What these people were trying to create or re-create here in this new world is beyond me. I can't put myself in their minds or their hearts, but I can sympathize with their struggle for an identity, with their puzzlement, which has troubled Americans from the very beginning - Who are we, where do we fit in, where are we going?Nelson DeMille
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Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.Nelson DeMille
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G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.Nelson DeMille