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I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.


Neal Asher

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NEAL BARNARD I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.
LARRY NEAL The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of thei...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve be...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their ...
PATRICIA NEAL The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c...
NEAL STEPHENSON Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to ...
NEAL STEPHENSON From long experience in places like Afghanisatan and Chechnya, Sokolov recognised, in the black jiha...
NEAL STEPHENSON Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
NEAL STEPHENSON Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN For weeks Charlie had been singing the same song over and over again.
“Dinah won’t you b...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
JOHN NEAL Choice strengthens all.
NEAL PRESCOT Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there...
NEAL CASSADY A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
PATRICIA NEAL The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
LEONARD NEAL Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events,...
NEAL STEPHENSON A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
PATRICIA NEAL Who knew that dog saliva can mend a broken heart?
JENNIFER NEAL Disappearing can be quite the coping mechanism for those of us who fear abandonment the very most of...
JENNIFER NEAL She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what s...
NEAL STEPHENSON Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.
RICHARD NEAL