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A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Newark
New Jersey
Attention
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Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.
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There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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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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Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.
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Summer romances cometo an end. That was part of the deal. They are built like certain plants or insects, not able to survive more than one season. I thought we would be different. We were, I guess, but not in the way I thought. I truly believed that we would never let each other go. The young are so dumb.
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...better to have loved and lost bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.
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You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.
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For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?
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Im 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.
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Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.
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...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers
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Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers. She slapped my back. Welcome to high school.
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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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Only bad writers think they're good.
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Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once
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Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay
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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 try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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