George Pelecanos Quotes
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
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That’s what libraries were for: to make sure that everybody had the same access to the same books everyone else did.
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Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.
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I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.
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Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
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I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
