"Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and……" — Carl Hiaasen
"Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck."
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60 Quotes by Carl Hiaasen
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That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind…
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Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a…
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That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to…
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role…
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And…
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on…
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From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched…
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that…
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name…
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly…
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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and…
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my…
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