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"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
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"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
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"A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!"
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"Where there is murder, anything can happen."
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"Don't hide in the trees when you know that tigers can climb."
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"They want to cook you and eat you," she said distatefully, "which is ridiculous. You'd taste terrible.""Thank you, grandmother."
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"Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself.""Are you trying to tempt me?""Ha-ha."
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"Which is colder, the hand or the gun?"
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"One thing is true and that Humans are the examples of killers which destroy other fellows dreams."
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"What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the frying pan and into the fire!"
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"Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or...""Or we'll die?" I guessed."Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes.""Let's avoid the swords," I decided."
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"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
Danger
"If the public likes you, you're good."
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"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick."
Family
"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."
History
"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."
Writing
"I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of."
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"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
Fear
"I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics."
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"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."
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"I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it."
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