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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.
Charlaine Harris
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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.
Henning Mankell
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
Patricia Cornwell
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.
Uell Stanley Andersen
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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