Elmore Leonard Quotes
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
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Lying can never save us from another lie.
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
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'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
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What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
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Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they've played their first game!
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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
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Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.
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I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
