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" I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer. "

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" I have a large collection of town cars because when I was just a snipe in the gutter, growing up in Los Angeles, a town car drove by. I remember running in the house to get my mother so she could see it. It was utterly magnificent. "

" I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I thought, 'Well, I'll go look for it.' "

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" My son's name is Dirk - I named Dirk Pitt after him when he was about three years old. "

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" I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth. "

" I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big deal. You knew all about the Revolution, and you still had Civil War veterans. "

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