Helen McCloy Quotes

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• Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

  Helen McCloy

  Psychics, Criminals, Gloves

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• Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.

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  Dream, Liars, Lying

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• most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.

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  Weed, Educational, Smart

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• That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.

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  Money, Trying, Moments

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• In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

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  Heart, Cities, Humanity

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• Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

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  Believe, Ghost

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• The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.

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  Hate, Heart, Beauty Everywhere

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• fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

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  Art, Lying, Creativity

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• Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

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  War, Anti War, Crime

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• At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

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  Past, Choices, Decision

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• Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

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  Jewels, Tears, Rich

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• A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

  Helen McCloy

  Thinking, Likes And Dislikes, Language

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• To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.

  Helen McCloy

  Latin, Moving, Hands

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• Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

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  Religious, Falling In Love, Love Is

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• Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

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  Daughter, Lying, Fiction

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• Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

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  Stronger, Lessons, Habit

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• ... law is a substitute for love.

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  Law, Substitutes

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• the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

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  Character, Fool, Common

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• what you fear, you invite.

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  Fear, Invites

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• The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

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  Betrayal, Writing, Lines

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• the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

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  Truth, Plausible

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• Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

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  California, Larger Than Life, Thunderstorm

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• Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.

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  Children, People, Interesting

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• Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.

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  Sleep, Appreciate, Privacy

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• the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

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  Powerful, Delay, Distraction

  Helen McCloy (1977). “The Impostor: A Novel of Suspense”, Dodd Mead

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