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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Easy to exemplify my true feelings towards him
Charlaine Harris
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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.
Edgar Allan Poe
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!
Kathy Reichs
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In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.
James Ellroy
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Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Sookie, it is not your blood I love. I love you. Your heart, your mind, your soul... you have brought light back into my life
Charlaine Harris
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The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.
Charlie Huston
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I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
Robert B. Parker
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