Lawrence Block Quotes
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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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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.
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Those numbers ay not sound like a bid deal until one reflects that average global temperatures were 'only' 5 degrees cooler at the height of the last Ice Age.
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Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.
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When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is in the mind, not in the eye. In our minds, we have an awareness of perfection that leads us on.. .The response to beauty is emotion. Sometimes very subtle emotions of which we are almost not aware, and sometimes our most powerful emotions..
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I had my first girlfriend at 15. Life was difficult then.
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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.
