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- A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
- I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I…
- I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work…
- I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
- Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
- I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide