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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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Everyone is doing forensics.
Patricia Cornwell
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The night swelled with magic not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.
Charlaine Harris
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.
Charlaine Harris
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there
Charlaine Harris
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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
Donna Leon
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If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.
Jane Haddam
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.
Charlaine Harris
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.
Patricia Cornwell
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I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.
James Ellroy
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
Michael Connelly
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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?
Patricia Cornwell
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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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