George Pelecanos Quotes

I was heavily into John D. MacDonald.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1957

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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.

John Burroughs

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

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Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where investors are not confident that there are appropriate protections, investors will lose confidence in our markets, and capital formation will ultimately be made more difficult and expensive.

Mary Schapiro

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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

Lou Reed

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So many times, my mom would say, 'It's not too late to go law school.'

David Zabel

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There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.

Clive Barker

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

Susan B. Anthony

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Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.

Peter Diamandis

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As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

Norman Macleod

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