"Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out."

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Source : Martin Cruz Smith (2016). “Gypsy in Amber”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

Martin Cruz Smith

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“I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.”
“Allowing short selling is allowing people to sell - instead of having to buy the stock and then sell it, which doesn't do much; allow them to sell it, and then buy it. In which case they can express that information and the idea is that you would get more accurate valuation of companies by letting people express both their positive information and their negative information through either long or short selling.”
“True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.”
“As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.”

Source : "From XLIII: An interview with Joe Montana". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. February 01, 2009.
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”

Source : Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.16, Penguin
“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”
“You won't ever be totally gotten by any human. That's part of the fun.”
“For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that â€” situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy â€” Jamaica has no reason to be poor,”

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