"I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective."

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Source : Joe Gores (2009). “Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon”, p.13, Vintage

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“If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.”

Source : "Herta Müller: a life in books". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2012.
“The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.”

Source : Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.153, A&C Black
“It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.”
“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark”

Source : Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett
“You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.”
“We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.”

Source : Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.292, Simon and Schuster
“A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.”

Source : "Alexander Skarsgård: Interview with a vampire". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.
“You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.”

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