"In 1938, when I had decided that the……" — Leslie Charteris
"In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between."
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Leslie Charteris
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14 Quotes by Leslie Charteris
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For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's…
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I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the…
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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with…
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He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He…
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The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means…
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Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.
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I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
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Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
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The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country,…
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Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have…
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About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
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If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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