"I know writers have to be crazy. But……" — Leon Uris
"I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail."
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48 Quotes by Leon Uris
Leon Uris has 48 quotes on this site.
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The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
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The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration…
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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its…
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't…
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Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm…
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It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home…
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There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again,…
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You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women
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After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something…
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To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever…
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A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as…
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More Crazy Quotes
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North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.
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I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.
— Sebastian Bach
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded…
— Douglas Adams
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I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie…
— Christine Baranski
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I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever…
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
— Edward Abbey
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
— Dave Barry
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
— Lynda Barry
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
— Marion Barry
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
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