Lawrence Block Quotes

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People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

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Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

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I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

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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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If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

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Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

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Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

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This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

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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 close on Election Day.

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It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

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Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

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