Quotes by Helen McCloy

Helen McCloy

… law is a substitute for love.

Law

Substitutes

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.

Believe

Civilization

Long

Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.

Dream

Liars

Lying

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can’t wear gloves to hide them.

Criminals

Gloves

Psychics

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

Art

Creativity

Lying

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

Habit

Lessons

Stronger

In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

Cities

Heart

Humanity

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

Feds

Money

Taste

most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people … until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.

Educational

Smart

Weed

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

Believe

Ghost

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Appreciate

Art

Believe

Betrayal

Cake

Children

Cities

Civilization

Creativity

Criminals

Delay

Distraction

Dream

Educational

Feds

Ghost

Gloves

Habit

Heart

Humanity

Interesting

Law

Lessons

Liars

Lines

Long

Lying

Money

People

Plausible

Political Opinions

Powerful

Privacy

Psychics

Sleep

Smart

Stronger

Substitutes

Taste

Truth

Weed

Writing

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Quotes by Helen McCloy

Helen McCloy

… law is a substitute for love.

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.

Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can’t wear gloves to hide them.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people … until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

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