"Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics."

-- John Banville

#Sentimental Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.”
“You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!”
“Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.”
“When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists.”
“Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.”
“The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.”
“Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.”

Source : Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.163, Broadway Books
“Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.”

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