Top 41 Martin Cruz Smith Quotes
#1. I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.
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#2. 'High Concept' means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as 'Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins.' Or, 'Arnold is pregnant.'
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#4. I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.
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#5. To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.
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#6. I used to have a big dog, a rottweiler, to guard the place. One night I was working late, and he was outside barking in the snow. He wouldn't stop. Then he stopped. I went out ten minutes later with a lamp, and there was a ring of wolves eating my dog.
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#7. The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
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#8. Your such a cynic.
Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth.
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#9. As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
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#11. Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year ... I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.
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#12. There are not many road signs in Russia, you know. He laughed. If you don't know where the road goes, you shouldn't be on it.
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#13. Twiss. Free of vice and gossip and idle tales." As the indicator arrow hit "B," Joseph switched to
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#14. I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
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#15. It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.
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#16. Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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#17. Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
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#20. Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.
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#21. If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
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#22. What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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#23. Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
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#25. It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon.
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#27. The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.
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#29. He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.
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#30. These enemies of society are to be driven out of New York regardless of their constitutional rights.' The
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#32. Proust said that you could seduce any woman if you were willing to sit and listen to her complain until four in the morning.
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#33. Interrogation is largely a process of rebirth done in the clumsiest fashion possible, a system in which the midwife attempts to deliver the same baby a dozen times in a dozen different ways.
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#34. I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
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#35. Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
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#36. The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
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#37. I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.
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#38. She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.
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#39. The research is the most interesting part ... That's how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I've come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I'm after.
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#40. Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare.
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#41. The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half million Gypsies who drew breath but also the countless Gypsies who had gone before, restless spirits still wandering through cities and deserts, still real.
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