"Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and thenâ€¦ justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads."

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Source : Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

Stefan Petrucha

#Real Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Hero Quotes

“You got rid of them. Yes, thatâ€™s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether â€˜tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end themâ€¦ But you donâ€™t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. Itâ€™s too easy.”
“Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.”
“I could easily believe that religion could enhance health and hence survival, and that therefore there could be indeed be literally Darwinian survival value, Darwinian selection in favor of religion. None of that of course bears at all upon the truth value of the claims made by religions.”
“Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my haters tell em hi”
“Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable”
“Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.”

Source : John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press
“God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.”
“Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way.”

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