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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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 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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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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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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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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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.
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A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
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We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
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I was becoming completely disgusted with the way fear was controlling my life. As I started hating the fear that consumed me, I also began to hate the person I was becoming because of it—and that was a major problem.
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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.
