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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
Michael Connelly
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs and also so clever that they can manage each other's.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
Robert B. Parker
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.
James Ellroy
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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson? No, indeed! You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged. My dear fellow! I congrat- To Milverton's housemaid. My dear Holmes! I wanted information, Watson.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.
Henning Mankell
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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