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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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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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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Science is-or should be-the greenest force of all.
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Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.
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It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.
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Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
