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If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
— George Pelecanos
To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
— Joseph De Maistre
Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of
— Holly Bourne
Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.
— Marita Golden
Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.
— William J. Bernstein
A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
— Michel De Montaigne
Confess your sins. God will cleanse you of all the wrongs done.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With Free minds all are to worship their Gods
— Constantine The Great
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.
— George Pelecanos
Human civilization was annihilated in three hours, before even one alien bothered to set foot on the ground.
— Chris J. Randolph
The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.
— George Pelecanos
We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.
— George Pelecanos
You already been a punk. Least you can do is go out like a man. Then a dull popping sound and a quiet splash.
— George Pelecanos
Pain is not seen as an objection to life: 'If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain ...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
— George Pelecanos
I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.
— George Pelecanos
A pistol ain't good for nothin' but killing other human beings, man.
— George Pelecanos
There isnt always an explanation for everything.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.
— George Pelecanos
I'm just a man, no more enlightened than any other.
— George Pelecanos
Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!
— Evo Morales
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
— George Pelecanos
And Constantine thought: So this is how it is, at the end.
— George Pelecanos