Harlan Coben Quotes
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I have nothing to hide.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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I dressed more like a pop star, I suppose, rather than the traditional blazer and tall trousers other players went for.
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Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.
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The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
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I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
