Research Quote by Lawrence Block

““Research is a joy, especially when one is not burdened with an excessive reverence for the truth.””

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If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

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“She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.”

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“that would have hidden the decades of filth that had left their stamp upon the wooden floor.”

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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…

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And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

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I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

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“Your unconscious mind takes the things you can’t handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn…

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Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

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Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to…

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I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

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As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of…

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“My crime seemed destined to remain a secret forever.”

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