"Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started."

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Source : Ian Rankin (2014). “Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.170, Macmillan

Ian Rankin

#Lying Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.”
“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”
“Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.”
“You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.”
“The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew P. Tobias, 1982.
“If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.”
“I was very active in the peace movement, still am”
“One of the fundamental issues with The Vatican is that the world changed on us. That show was conceived and written while Pope Benedict was still in charge of the Vatican, and it was conceived in a world that now would feel very dated.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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