Linda Barnes Quotes

• If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

  Linda Barnes

  Warning, Want, Might

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

  Linda Barnes

  Half, Mystery, Used

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

  Linda Barnes

  Singers, Comes And Goes, Music Business

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art.

  Linda Barnes

  Art, Sex, Men

  Linda Barnes (2013). “A Trouble of Fools”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

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  Mean, Order, Personality

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Further Adventures of Carlotta Carlyle: Three Mystery Stories”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

  Linda Barnes

  Latin, Ghetto, Insults You

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Cold Case”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

  Linda Barnes

  Guilt, Force, Majors

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.

  Linda Barnes

  Mom, Dad, Guilt

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Hardware”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

  Linda Barnes

  Music, Swear To God, Records

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.

  Linda Barnes

  Dating, Guy, Chemistry

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Snapshot”, p.34, Open Road Media

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