Donald E. Westlake Quotes
I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'
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Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.