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Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something
Harlan Coben
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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
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There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.
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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
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You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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I still try to make the next book my best book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.
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Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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