"Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area."

-- Asa Larsson

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“I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.”
“Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.136, Macmillan
“Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.”

Source : "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.
“Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.”
“It's so important to know where you are.”
“Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.”

Source : "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Evolution as Fact and Theory", pp. 254 - 55, 1983.
“People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.”
“Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill.”

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