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It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
Michael Connelly
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Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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Don't go growing a conscience on me, I said. I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.
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There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.
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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
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...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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