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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. You are beautiful. No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208.
Charlaine Harris
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!
Michael Connelly
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Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
Edgar Allan Poe
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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.
Henning Mankell
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I always wrote my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
Sara Paretsky
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When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
Patricia Cornwell
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Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]
Edgar Allan Poe
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Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins.
Dorothy Cannell
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
Edgar Allan Poe
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But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
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There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Michael Connelly
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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no beauty without some strangeness
Edgar Allan Poe
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Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.
Henning Mankell
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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