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" I'm an outdoors kind of guy. "
John Sandford
Kind
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" Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house. "
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" People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away. "
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" I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture. "
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" People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition. "
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" There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting. "
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" Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things. "
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" I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of. "
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" Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing. "
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" Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me. "
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" Working for the 'Miami Herald' in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever - more violent than even 1968 in Chicago. "
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Miami
" I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues. "
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Law
Law Enforcement
" There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back. "
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" That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating. "
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Control
Evil
" I'm somewhat depressive. "
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Depressive
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Media
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" If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful. "
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Peaceful
You
" I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. "
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City
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People
" It's interesting how people are sensitive to language and how it works. "
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Language
Interesting
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Lot
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