Quotes by Robert B. Parker

Robert B. Parker

‘All Our Yesterdays’ was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

Done

Reading

Yesterday

Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don’t know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.

People

Views

What Matters

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience,” I said. “Both of them are true, it’s just that we’ve had different experiences.

Different Experiences

Opinion

Said

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

Believe

Coincidence

College had little effect on me. I’d have been the same writer if I’d gone to MIT, except I’d have flunked out sooner.

College

Gone

Mit

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Admiration

Father

Grew Up

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

Education

Pieces

Years

Has anyone ever told you,” I said, “that you coalesce reality?” “No. They only say that I’m good in the sack.” “They are accurate but limited,” I said. “And if you give me their names I’ll kill them.

Giving

Names

Reality

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls’ dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls’ dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

Girl

School

Senior

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

Boys

Giving Up

Son

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Army

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Believe

Block

Book

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Coincidence

College

Complaining

Consequence

Credit

Deals

Different Experiences

Do The Best

Done

Education

Falcon

Father

Five

Funny

Girl

Giving

Giving Up

Gone

Grew Up

Growing Up

Harm

Heard

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Interesting

Iron

Keys

Limits

Live Life

May

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Men

Mit

Money

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Quotes by Robert B. Parker

Robert B. Parker

‘All Our Yesterdays’ was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don’t know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience,” I said. “Both of them are true, it’s just that we’ve had different experiences.

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

College had little effect on me. I’d have been the same writer if I’d gone to MIT, except I’d have flunked out sooner.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

Has anyone ever told you,” I said, “that you coalesce reality?” “No. They only say that I’m good in the sack.” “They are accurate but limited,” I said. “And if you give me their names I’ll kill them.

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls’ dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls’ dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

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