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David Baldacci (born August 5, 1960) is a bestselling American novelist.

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The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

Encouragement, Human, Medicine, Miracle, Pull, Strongest

I'm ever curious about the world.

Curious, Vivid Imagination, World

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

Create, Truth, Trying, Waste, Wasting Time

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

Disrespect, Justice, Knight, Knights, Thing

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

Flip, People, President, Read, Stereotypes

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.

America, Country, Experience, Gets, Journey, Train

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga. , for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

Military, Officers, Soldier, World, Write, Writing

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

Easier, Label, Labels, Trying, World

I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

Content, I'M Tired, People, Screaming, Tired

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

Comeback, Gone, Mistake, Mistakes, Reputation

It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

May, Cotton, Knows, Love, Hard

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

Gives, Giving, Men, Poor, Sacrifice

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book. ' And it never does.

Book, Classified, Disclaimer, Doe, Given, People

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

Ambition, Fleeting, Men, Prospect

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

Book, Change, Kids, Rat, Rock, Rocks

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

Care, People, Things, Two

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

Book, Take, Write, Writing, Years

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

Hero, Heroes, Protagonists

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

Beings, Corruption, Human, Humans, Involved, Long

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

Appreciation, Civilized, Prize, Reward, Running, Writing

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