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I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

Douglas Preston
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Douglas Preston's Popular Quotes

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

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We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

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The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

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Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

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When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the…

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One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

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The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To star…

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Hubris and science are incompatible.

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