Greg Cox quotes

“Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.”
-- Greg Cox

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“The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.”
-- Greg Cox

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“Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.”
-- Greg Cox

Source : Greg Cox, Electric Entertainment (2013). “The Bestseller Job”, p.71, Penguin

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“When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.”
-- Greg Cox

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“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”

Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.

“The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.”

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.”

“I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.”

“When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.”

“The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2004). “Mollie and Other War Pieces”, p.121, U of Nebraska Press

“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”

“I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.”

“A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.”