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1 " Dick kept his eyes on people like a gunfighter stepping up from a poker table to scrape winnings into his hat. "
― Tom Deaderick , The Lazarus Spear
2 " It's not a stair step, Hogan,' he'd said. 'It's a step from a cliff. You can't take a small step over the edge of a cliff, all there is – is the one big one. "
3 " The spear's purpose is clear. Mine is clear. And yours is. You're the reason it makes sense, because I'm only interested in saving the world because you're in it. Of course, He knows that. "
4 " All the normal ways that you might know someone, what they liked for lunch, their hobbies, their interests, the people they couldn't stand—all the normal data points people constantly, unconsciously collect, none of those data points can predict how someone might react to 'I've decided to try saving the world by stabbing the President with my magic spear'. That's pretty much going to be a gamble every time. "
5 " I think those idiots have stepped into a sack of dog crap on the porch with a 50-megaton firecracker underneath. I think we're about to lose the porch, best case. "
6 " She was a bubbling effervescent half-full glass in a world of cold black coffee in stained cups. "
7 " There was nothing, a world filled with everything and no answers to explain any of it. "
8 " Everything in her life had come undone as quickly as rope slipping over a cliff's edge. "
9 " If Steve Jobs reincarnated into a pit bull and was staked with a logging chain and baked in the summer heat, he'd have Dick's attitude about right. "
10 " Hogan didn't want to give Dick enough runway that he could get his paranoia airborne. "
11 " My favorite part of the book, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP is that the story goes on for a long time after the main character dies. Like real life. "
