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One Quotes by Lawrence Block
- One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages…
- The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...
- I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it…
- I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me,
- One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
- As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things…
- New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and 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…
- 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.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle