Harlan Coben Quotes
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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You are just your intelligence.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.
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This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized … in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.
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I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.
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Monica Swinton, twenty-nine, of graceful shape and lambent eye, went and sat in her living room, arranging her limbs with taste. She began by sitting and thinking; soon she was just sitting. Time waited on her shoulder with the maniac slowth it reserves for children, the insane, and wives whose husbands are away improving the world.
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I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
