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• This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

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  Real, Flames, Parking Meters

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• People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

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  People, Things Change, People Don't Change

  Lawrence Block (2011). “In the Midst of Death”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

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  Asking, Knows, Pointless

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• To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

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  Way, Exaggeration, My Way

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• The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

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  Writing, Stories, World

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• I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

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  Mean, Cat, Elk

  Lawrence Block (2011). “The Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries: Volume Two”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

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  New York, Dirty, Home

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• I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

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  Fiction, Awful, Plans

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• Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

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  Ems, Stories, Stink

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• Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

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  New York, Cities, Democracy

  Lawrence Block (2011). “Afterthoughts”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

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  Nuts, Different, Way

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• I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

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  Country, New York, People

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• I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

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  New Yorkers

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• If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

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  Fate, Use, Lemonade

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• I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

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  Writing, Goes On, Want

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• Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

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  Sex, Young, Booze

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• My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.

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  Mother, Easter, Father

  Lawrence Block (2011). “Out On The Cutting Edge”, p.72, Hachette UK

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