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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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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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
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After it is said and done about who does what on the Batman assembly line, I do not underestimate all of the help I've received.
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I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.
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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.
