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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.
Ian Rankin
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I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
Jane Haddam
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Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.
Patricia Cornwell
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.
Edgar Allan Poe
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.
Sara Paretsky
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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
Donna Leon
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.
Ian Rankin
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College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.
Robert B. Parker
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I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.
Michael Connelly
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Men have called me mad but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
Donna Leon
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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at leastCocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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