Greg Iles Quotes
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“See Spot run! is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.”
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“Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.”
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I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.
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The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
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“The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.”
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My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.
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Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.
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Some things we must pass over in silence.
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“'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.”
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And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.
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Because death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him.
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There's nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole.
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When we reach the intersection with Homochitto Street, I turn right, into town, and soon we're passing Dunleith, the antebellum mansion that I always say makes Tara from Gone with the Wind look like a woodshed.
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“IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.”
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Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they're paralyzed by fear.
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“Carefully negotiated his way”
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Her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of
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I don't say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way.
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“Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.”
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Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we see it or not, a secret center of gravity with the invisible power of a black hole.
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