Edmund Crispin Quotes
At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device than that of manoeuvring them into examining themselves in mirrors.

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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
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Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
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I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart — hearts are made to be broken — but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.
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One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.
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When a man scores 81 points in a regulation game, that speaks volumes.
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You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
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I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.
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At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device than that of manoeuvring them into examining themselves in mirrors.