Edmund Crispin Quotes
I find it worth while to help clean up the mess made by malevolence and folly. But I do try not to like the mess for its own sake.
Quotes to Explore
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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God is never early and never late.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.
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People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is.
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'You’re called a holy man,' she said. 'I see you’re wholly deranged.'
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I find it worth while to help clean up the mess made by malevolence and folly. But I do try not to like the mess for its own sake.
