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"Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers."
Reading
"Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer."
Books
"I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little."
Truth
"As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me."
History
"I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective."
Career
"Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."
Politics
"I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people."
Woman
"As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it."
Work
"I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime."
Love
"I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman."
Life
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