Quotes by Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

Long

Pain

Relief

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, ‘People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange’

Littles

Meaningful

People

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

Giving

Mother

Years

Asking me why I did or didn’t do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I’ll do in the future is even less rewarding.

Asking

Knows

Pointless

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

Cities

Democracy

New York

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

Booze

Sex

Young

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Choices

Evil

Giving

Donald Westlake’s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you’ve been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you’ll want on that desert island.

Book

Islands

War

Every year there’s a few more things I’m not sure of. I’ve decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Maturity

Men

Years

Everybody’s weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it’s a sexual thing and sometimes it’s a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody’s nuts.

Different

Nuts

Way

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Adversity

Asking

Awful

Book

Booze

Cat

Choices

Cities

Coffee

Country

Cups

Dark

Democracy

Destiny

Different

Dirty

Discovery

Ears

Easter

Elk

Ems

Enough

Evil

Exaggeration

Eye

Fate

Father

Fiction

Flames

Funny

Giving

Goes On

Home

Hurt

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Inspirational

Islands

Jobs

Knowing God

Knows

Lemonade

Liars

Littles

Long

Long Ago

Lying

Maturity

Mean

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Quotes by Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, ‘People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange’

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

Asking me why I did or didn’t do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I’ll do in the future is even less rewarding.

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Donald Westlake’s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you’ve been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you’ll want on that desert island.

Every year there’s a few more things I’m not sure of. I’ve decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Everybody’s weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it’s a sexual thing and sometimes it’s a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody’s nuts.

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