Leslie Ford Quotes

• It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.

  Leslie Ford

  Zero, Average, League

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• I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

  Leslie Ford

  Men, Important, Groups

  Zenith Brown, Leslie Ford (2018). “Ill Met by Moonlight”, p.109, Wildside Press LLC

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• It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.

  Leslie Ford

  Disillusioned, Disillusion

  Leslie Ford (1941). “The Murder of a Fifth Columnist”

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• Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.

  Leslie Ford

  Bystanders, Hands, Ideas

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• More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

  Leslie Ford

  People, Enemy, Ruined

  Leslie Ford, Zenith Jones Brown (1937). “The Simple Way of Poison”

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• The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.

  Leslie Ford

  Feet, People, Left

  Zenith Brown, Leslie Ford (2018). “Ill Met by Moonlight”, p.112, Wildside Press LLC

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• There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

  Leslie Ford

  Believe, Thinking, Miracle

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• Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.

  Leslie Ford

  Success, Decided

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• If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.

  Leslie Ford

  Dark, Light, Knows

  Leslie Ford, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Anthony Gilbert (1955). “Murder comes to Eden”

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• Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.

  Leslie Ford

  Men, Car, Ruins

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• bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.

  Leslie Ford

  Care, Bitterness

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• You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

  Leslie Ford

  Long, West, Dough

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• Do you have to do murder?
  Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.

  Leslie Ford

  Writing, Two, Stories

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• ...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back.

  Leslie Ford

  Track, Technique, Teeth

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• A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.

  Leslie Ford

  Cities, Kitchen, Secret

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