John Lescroart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.
-- John Lescroart

#Law #Essence #Enemy
In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.
-- John Lescroart

#Land #Insightful #Milk
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
-- John Lescroart

#Country #Swings #Band
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
-- John Lescroart

#Couple #Book #Anecdotes
Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.
-- John Lescroart

#New York #Real #Moving
One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.
-- John Lescroart

#Jobs #Writing #Night
Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real continuity from one generation to the next, and the next after that. So long as we keep reading, and reading to our children, there will be hope for our shared cultural heritage and the future of our world.
-- John Lescroart

#Children #Real #Reading

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.
It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

John Lescroart famous quotes

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