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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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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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
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I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.
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Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.
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I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.
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On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.
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If you can't be funny, be interesting.
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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.
