American crime writer (1938- )
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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The Sins of the Fathers
It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.
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Everybody Dies
When someone put money in your hand you closed your fingers around it and put it in your pocket.
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The Night and the Music
We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places.
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The Sins of the Fathers
Being broke is not a crime, nor is it proof of one's inadequacy as a writer or as a human being. If you go around with an attitude of implicit apology for being temporarily without funds, it's going to do you more harm than good.
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The Liar's Bible: A Handbook for Fiction Writers
I settled for a cup of coffee. Only it wasn't coffee. It was a coffee substitute made by grinding up dandelion roots. The idea was that it wouldn't keep you awake, and it's always seemed to me that the only thing coffee really has going for it is that it will keep you awake.
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The Topless Tulip Caper
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 off.
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Time to Murder and Create
Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up.
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All the Flowers are Dying
I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.
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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams