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  1. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    One can be a product only of one's own era, not anyone else's.
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  2. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    I honestly don't know how anyone functions in this society without a law degree.
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  3. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    there are brief enchanted moments in history and in the short lives of men and women, there is wonder and there is cynicism, there are dreams that can come true, and dreams that can't. And there was a time, you know, not so long ago, as recently as my own childhood in fact, when everyone believed in the future and eagerly awaited it or rushed to meet it. But now nearly everyone I know or used to know is trying to slow the speed of the world as the future starts to look more and more like someplace you don't want to be.
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  4. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    Oddly enough, I didn't recall feeling that way the week before. I wasn't certain how this revelation came about, but revelations are like that; they just smack you across the face one day, and you know you've arrived at the truth without even knowing you were looking for it. What you do about it is another matter. I
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  5. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    and there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast. Five, four, three, two, one.
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  6. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As
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  7. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    In America if you're poor, you're worse than a criminal. You're nobody.
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  8. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    I regarded Novac a moment. He had on an awful gray poplin cotton suit, the sort of thing that prisons issue when they set you free. He wore shoes that actually had gum soles, and the uppers were made of a miracle synthetic that could be safely cleaned with Brillo. His shirt, his tie, socks, watch, even his haircut, were all bargain basement, and I found myself irrationally offended by the man because of the air of sensible frugality about him. Actually, I hate a man who won't splurge on a good suit.
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  9. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    When you cheat at poker, life, or taxes, you've taken the honor and fun out of winning, and ultimately you've cheated yourself out of the finest pleasure in life: beating the other guy fair and square. That's what I was taught in school.
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  10. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    Thoreau's philosophy: If you read about one train wreck, you've read about them all."
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  11. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    In our pursuit of fidelity within a twenty-year-old marriage, Susan and I, in addition to the historical romances, sometimes talk about a premarital lover as part of our foreplay. I read in a book once that it was all right to do this, to get the juices going, but afterward, as you're both lying there, one partner is usually sullen and the other is sorry he or she was so graphic. Well, if you play with fire to get heat, you can also get burned.
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  12. Nelson DeMille _ The Gold Coast

    We entered the house, and there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast.
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