"I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could."

-- Chester Gould

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“He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.”
“I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.”
“By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.”
“Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.
“When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.”
“Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.”
“If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other thing, quality comes with practice. If you are prolific, then you become a better writer because you are writing. The more you do anything the better at it you will become. So in a way, quantity does add to quality.”
“Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

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