"The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about."

-- George Pelecanos

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“I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.”
“English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.”
“I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.”
“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.”
“Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.”
“I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!”
“That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.”
“Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.”

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