Kerry Greenwood famous quotes
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If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!
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There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.
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I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.
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I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.
-- Kerry Greenwood
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An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
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The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
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I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'
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I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.
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The angel came, the angel saw, the angel fell.
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