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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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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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Music has always been an incredibly significant part of my life and a meaningful way in which I express myself.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.
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I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
