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People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be.Lee Child
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Do it once and do it right and do it quicklyLee Child
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What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beachLee Child
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They had come for us in the night. Hey had come expecting a lot of blood. They had come with all their gear. Their rubber overshoes and their nylon bodysuits. Their knives, their hammer, their bag of nails. They had come to do a job on us, like they'd done on Morrison and his wife.Lee Child
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Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?Lee Child
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I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.Lee Child