Peter Temple Quotes
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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I'm more a dog person than a cat person.
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I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.
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I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.
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Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
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I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
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In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
