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Quotes from The Resurrection Man's Legacy — Dale Bailey

born 1968 United States

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You must never run away from the truth, Jake, however unpleasant. Because once you begin running, you can never stop.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

When it comes to death, sex, and money, everybody lies.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

The wall clock ticked, dividing the silence into discrete segments of discomfort.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

All writers are unregenerate thieves, and the ones who deny it are also liars.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

I believed then – and I believe still – that fiction driven by purely ideological goals is likely to be very poor fiction indeed.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

“You ever want to get away? You ever want to see the world?”
“I’ve seen it, Kemp. It’s overrated.”

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“I ain’t afraid of nothin.”
“You’re a bigger fool than I took you for, then.”

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He wasn’t the first man who had sought to prevent violence through the use of violence, but I wasn’t sure I liked the idea.
I wasn’t sure I didn’t like it either.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

I had broken the first commandment of political life, a commandment I had flogged relentlessly for the last year. Stay on message, stick to the talking points.
Thou shalt not speak from the heart.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

But it did not matter. An old lesson from the marines came back to me, a lesson from the hunt: you must never empathize with the enemy. You must kill him without fear or emotion, because if you do not he will certainly kill you. You must believe this, even if it is not true.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

You have to understand. The Germans were awful, they were often evil. But they were right in what they did that night, because those men, they had broken a taboo that should not ever be broken. And they had to be punished because unless you punish the people who do wrong, society falls apart. You can understand why those men did what they did, but people have to be punished or we’ll have chaos.

The Resurrection Man's Legacy (2003)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dale Bailey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.