Lawrence Block Quotes

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• Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were…
• Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.
• If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.
• If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for…
• I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it…
• I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store…
• People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.
• Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another…
• Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

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