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"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
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"One thing is true and that Humans are the examples of killers which destroy other fellows dreams."
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"Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or...""Or we'll die?" I guessed."Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes.""Let's avoid the swords," I decided."
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"The wolf pounces on the sheep when the shepherd strays."
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"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity."
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"Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music."
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"Even if you're an outstanding fighter, you can lose your life with one mistake."
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"Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center."
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"Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. "You shouldn't have turned it on! It's unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!"
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"The plan had three phases: dangerous, really dangerous and insanely dangerous."
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"There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people."
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"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."
Past
"I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of."
Old
"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."
History
"I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics."
Writing
"Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am."
Now
"If the public likes you, you're good."
Public
"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
Danger
"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick."
Family
"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."
History
"See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older."
Heroism
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