"Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe."

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Source : "A one-word response to Engdahl" by Giles Foden, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

Giles Foden

#Fiction Quotes #Detectives Quotes #Allan Poe Quotes

“I always write the pieces I want to write.”
“The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.”
“Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.”
“Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change.”

Source : Charles Wheelan (2012). “10 1⁄2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said”, p.112, W. W. Norton & Company
“The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.”
“That's actually pretty tame, but the fact that it was coming from this unexpected adorable little 17-year-old, I thought I'd be getting a letter about her first rock show, but it's nothing like that - she gives me a tampon. It's a true testament to how the majority of our fan base - and I say this in the most respectful and best way I can - they're little freaks.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.”
“Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.”

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