"The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that world. But honestly, if all crime fiction was quality fiction, it would be taken more seriously."

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Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

George Pelecanos

#Taken Quotes #Successful Quotes #Winning Quotes

“We've got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gore's head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways.”

Source : "Pregame Speech Reignites NFL Bounty Scandal". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 7, 2012.
“The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.”
“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
“Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.”
“I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.”
“My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.”
“The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.”

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