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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
Michael Connelly
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It is always the secure who are humble.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
Michael Connelly
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries
Edgar Allan Poe
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
Patricia Cornwell
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts its happy tales are of broken heads.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
Uell Stanley Andersen
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Everyone dies without understanding anything. Thats the way the world works, after all.
Yusuke Kishi
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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.
Sara Paretsky
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I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.
Michael Connelly
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...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
Michael Connelly
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