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1 " it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists "
― Christopher Hitchens , God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
2 " He's prowling back and forth like a lion with distemper now. There's a shiny streak down one side of his face. " I shouldn't have let her go ahead - I ought to be hung! Something's gone wrong. I can't stand this any more!" he says with a choked sound. " I'm starting now -" " But how are you -" " Spring for it and fire as I go if they try to stop me." And then as he barges out, the fat lady waddling solicitously after him, " Stay there; take it if she calls - tell her I'm on the way-" He plunges straight at the street-door from all the way back in the hall, like a fullback headed for a touchdown. That's the best way. Gun bedded in his pocket, but hand gripping it ready to let fly through lining and all. He slaps the door out of his way without slowing and skitters out along the building, head and shoulders defensively lowered.It *was* the taxi, you bet. No sound from it, at least not at this distance, just a thin bluish haze slowly spreading out around it that might be gas-fumes if its engine were turning; and at his end a long row of un-colored spurts - of dust and stone-splinters - following him along the wall of the flat he's tearing away from. Each succeeding one a half yard too far behind him, smacking into where he was a second ago. And they never catch up. (" Jane Brown's Body" ) "
3 " One of Coin's men lays a hand on my arm. Its not an aggressive move, really, but after the arena's I react defensively to any unfamiliar touch. I jerk my arm free and take off running down the halls. My mind does a quick inventory of my odd little hiding places and i wind up in the supply closet, curled up against a crate of chalk. "
― Suzanne Collins , Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
4 " Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose. "
― A.J. Flowers , A Guide to Writing Your First Novel
5 " I'm adding moves to my post game. I'm really working on staying low. I'm working on my strength overall, especially my legs. That's going to help me defensively as well. "
6 " When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player. "
