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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.
Henning Mankell
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If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
Charlaine Harris
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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A change of work is the best rest.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I've worked for law firms, I've worked for corporations, and for the past 20 years, I've been writing working for myself, and believe me it's a lot better. That's a big part of the James Bond panache, that you're responsible, 100 percent responsible, for the success or failure of your mission in life, whatever it is.
Jeffery Deaver
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I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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You have not wasted your time you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.
Charlaine Harris
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
Sara Paretsky
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Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Ann Rule
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'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Violence is sometimes a duty.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Sookie, Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. Yield to me. Well, that was pretty direct.
Charlaine Harris
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I stroked Eric's hair, tucking some behind his ear. His eyes on mine were intent, and I knew he was waiting for me to speak. I wish, I said, I could save orgasms in a jar for when i need them, because I think I had a few extra. Eric's eyes widened, and all of a sudden he roared with laughter. (Dead to the World)
Charlaine Harris
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Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!
Edgar Allan Poe
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Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.
Kathy Reichs
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