"Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my narrator Hannah, I'm a crime writer in my own peculiar way. Crime with a capital "C" is the subject that I'm stuck with - even Sway is about "crime" in a certain way. The nice thing about crime is that it enables you to deal with some big questioO"

-- Zachary Lazar

#Nice Quotes #Narrators Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.”
“Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.”
“None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world.”
“If you can be interested in other people you can own the world.”
“Too quickly, venting can turn into dumping garbage on the people around us.”
“I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life.”
“When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.”
“Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.”

Source : John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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