Harlan Coben Quotes
Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I am healthy and happy.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
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The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
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Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.
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Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.
