Laura Lippman Quotes - Page 2

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• ...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.

  Laura Lippman

  War, Gay, Boys

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• There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

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  Children, Math, Odds

  "I'd Know You Anywhere". Book by Laura Lippman, 2010.

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• I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

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  Thinking, Talking, Cities

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• Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

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  Jobs, Goes On, World

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

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  Kids, Different, Responsible

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• As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

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  Female, Singers, Taste

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

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  Kids, College, People

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• stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

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  Selfishness, Size, Stinginess

  Laura Lippman (1999). “In big trouble”

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• how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

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  Gestures, Magnanimous, Ifs

  Laura Lippman (2011). “What the Dead Know”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

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  Want, Longing, Moments

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• it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

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  Smart, Luck, Lucky

  Laura Lippman (2015). “The Last Place”, p.286, Faber & Faber

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