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1. "Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin." ~ Alistair MacLean
2. "...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side." ~ Alistair MacLean
3. "I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that Hunslett was to have time for all the sleep in the world." ~ Alistair MacLean
4. "I am not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do. No mystique." ~ Alistair MacLean
5. "I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished." ~ Alistair MacLean
6. "This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria." ~ Alistair MacLean
7. "She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble." ~ Alistair MacLean
8. "Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less, a blind man could see that you had a good heart, and the good heart was all that mattered in this world." ~ Alistair MacLean

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It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality."
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