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Famous Quotes By Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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'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.' — Martin Cruz Smith

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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. — Martin Cruz Smith

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Twiss. Free of vice and gossip and idle tales." As the indicator arrow hit "B," Joseph switched to — Martin Cruz Smith

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You have to be an outsider to write, — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. — Martin Cruz Smith

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I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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Proust said that you could seduce any woman if you were willing to sit and listen to her complain until four in the morning. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker ... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life. — Martin Cruz Smith

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The fact is that I loved being in England. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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Well, the Romanies have been around for five thousand years, longer than any nation. And why? Because we know how to survive. The Aryans tried to kill us, the Persians, the Tatars, the Magyars, the Africans, the Germans, everybody. But we stay together, and we move on, and we keep one thing in mind, to survive, and that is our greatest secret. — Martin Cruz Smith

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I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. — Martin Cruz Smith

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I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about. — Martin Cruz Smith

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Stalin gothic was not so much an architectural style as a form of worship. Elements of Greek, French, Chinese and Italian masterpieces had been thrown into the barbarian wagon and carted to Moscow and the Master Builder Himself, who had piled them one on the other into the cement towers and blazing torches of His rule, monstrous skyscrapers of ominous windows, mysterious crenellations and dizzying towers that led to the clouds, and yet still more rising spires surmounted by ruby stars that at night glowed like His eyes. After His death, His creations were more embarrassment than menace, too big for burial with Him, so they stood, one to each part of town, great brooding, semi-Oriental temples, not exorcised but used. — Martin Cruz Smith

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I hate to be categorized. — Martin Cruz Smith

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She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time. — Martin Cruz Smith

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Your such a cynic.
Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth. — Martin Cruz Smith

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I feel very bad about getting things wrong. — Martin Cruz Smith

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Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.' — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself. — Martin Cruz Smith

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Wolves eat dogs." That did seem to be the consensus of the village, Arkady thought. Roman shook his head as if he'd given the matter a lot of consideration. "Wolves hate dogs. Wolves hunt down dogs because they regard them as traitors. If you think about it, dogs are dogs only because of humans; otherwise they'd all be wolves, right? And where will we be when all the dogs are gone? It will be the end of civilization. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year ... I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. — Martin Cruz Smith

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The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man. — Martin Cruz Smith

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I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant. — Martin Cruz Smith

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Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. — Martin Cruz Smith

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It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith

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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. — Martin Cruz Smith

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He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years. — Martin Cruz Smith

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These enemies of society are to be driven out of New York regardless of their constitutional rights.' The — Martin Cruz Smith

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The most beautiful women in the world were African. — Martin Cruz Smith