"I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction." — Harlan Coben
"I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction."
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98 Quotes by Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben has 98 quotes on this site.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments…
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I…
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A…
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The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most…
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids…
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or…
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the…
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't…
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More Crime Quotes
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one of 2,562 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down…
— Paul Auster
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us…
— Honore de Balzac
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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