Lawrence Block Quotes
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
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This is a game where if you don't have people who dislike you, then you don't know what it is to be liked. I've had a lot of dislike thrown at me in this game, but I've also had a lot of love.
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He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.
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I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.
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A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
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I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
