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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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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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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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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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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We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.
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If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
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I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.
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Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room. You've just got to be in the moment and go with it.
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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
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I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
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I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.
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I am still praying for revolution.
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People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.
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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.
