Harlan Coben Quotes
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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What song do I hate? I think 'Daughters,' by John Mayer, would be a good candidate. I don't know why he bugs me so bad.'
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But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.
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Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.
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My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
