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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.
Sara Paretsky
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It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.
Charlaine Harris
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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Amazing.” Hi stripped off his shirt, wrung it out. “Score one for your honker.” “Thanks, I think.” I cocked my chin at Hi’s substantial midsection. “Nice abs.” “Yeah, I work out twice a month. No expectations. But stop hitting on me, it’s embarrassing.
Kathy Reichs
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Yeah. Floyd is his batman.
Robert B. Parker
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It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Most of us think we've had more trouble than we deserve.
Elizabeth Ferrars
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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.
Uell Stanley Andersen
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
Michael Connelly
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It’s harder to come back than it is to arrive.
Dorothy B. Hughes
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Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.
James Ellroy
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.
Donna Leon
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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Jeffery Deaver
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Sweetheart, Bill said formally, I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.
Charlaine Harris
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Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly
Charlaine Harris
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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