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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way
Robert B. Parker
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Comradeship is obvious and universal and open but it is only one kind of affection it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.
Denise Mina
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.
James Ellroy
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And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. . . For friendship implies individuality whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two but comrades are the better for being two million.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.
Charlaine Harris
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I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.
Robert B. Parker
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will
Donna Leon
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Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.
Patricia Cornwell
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The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
Ann Rule
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You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.
Sara Paretsky
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
Jane Haddam
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It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex they can breed thoughts.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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