Leslie Charteris Quotes

• Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

  Leslie Charteris

  Stupid, Enough, Remarks

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• For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

  Leslie Charteris

  Travel, Adventure, Tickets

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• It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

  Leslie Charteris

  Writing, Lazy, Literature

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• I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

  Leslie Charteris

  Laughter, Believe, Fighting

  "The Last Hero".

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• He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

  Leslie Charteris

  Believe, Men, Romance

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• The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

  Leslie Charteris

  Mean, Eye, Feuds

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• I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

  Leslie Charteris

  Book, Drs, Stills

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• Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

  Leslie Charteris

  Jobs, Thinking, Stories

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• In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

  Leslie Charteris

  Country, America, West

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• Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

  Leslie Charteris

  Writing, Literature, Lasts

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• If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

  Leslie Charteris

  Writing, Literature, Ifs

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