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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Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
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Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.
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What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
