"I think there are two prevailing views of……" — Megan Abbott
"I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way."
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10 Quotes by Megan Abbott
Megan Abbott has 10 quotes on this site.
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The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless…
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Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling…
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Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always…
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I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
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I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always…
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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about…
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There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.
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No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the…
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If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.
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More Buys Quotes
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one of 189 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce…
— Unknown Author
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The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going…
— Tom Coburn
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
— Garrison Keillor
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then…
— Ezra Pound
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he…
— Milton Friedman
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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
— Unknown Author
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Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private…
— Mae West
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I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I…
— Nat King Cole
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The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys…
— Burl Ives
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Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought…
— Dennis Miller
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