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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
Patricia Cornwell
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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
Sara Paretsky
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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.
Edgar Allan Poe
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation. For nothing is impossible to the Subconscious Mind and it operates entirely by suggestion.
Uell Stanley Andersen
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I am self-educated from genre books.
Charlaine Harris
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I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.
James Ellroy
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.
Robert B. Parker
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I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.
Michael Connelly
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Surprise is the secret of joy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The best hiding spots are not the most hidden they're merely the least searched.
Chris Pavone
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Eric was incensed, to use a good entry from my word of the day Calender. In fact his eyes were almost throwing sparks he was so angry. This woman has been mine, and she will be mine he said in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand.
Charlaine Harris
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I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
Denise Mina
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Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of respectability in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
Edgar Allan Poe
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