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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
Sara Paretsky
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A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.
James Ellroy
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You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.
Kate Ross
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Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.
Charlie Huston
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.
Kathy Reichs
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[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Self-pity is like chocolate as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
Charlaine Harris
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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All government is an ugly necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.
Charlie Huston
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No person can comfort like a dog can.
L. T. Meade
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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Women are the only realists their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I was born when you kissed me.
Dorothy B. Hughes
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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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