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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Science boasts of the distance of its stars of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is At Hand.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. That's interesting, he said. I had a psychic once. It was incredible. Did the psychic think so?
Charlaine Harris
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?
Ian Rankin
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Whatever the word great means, Dickens was what it means.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.
Charlaine Harris
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Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
Sara Paretsky
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Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.
Donna Leon
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True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am but why will you say that I am mad?
Edgar Allan Poe
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore
Edgar Allan Poe
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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
James Ellroy
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Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.
Charlaine Harris
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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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