"I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me."

-- Ed McBain

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“While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.”
“Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.”
“Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.”
“You all know I have terminal cancerâ€”and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afarâ€”if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.”
“I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.”
“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial one in any love story.”
“Hate is unfulfilled love.”
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”

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