Robert Barr quotes

“No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another”
-- Robert Barr

Source : Robert Barr (2016). “DEATH COMETH SOON OR LATE: 35+ Tales of Mystery & Revenge in One Volume (Thriller Classics Series): An Electrical Slip, The Vengeance of the Dead, The Great Pegram Mystery, The Vengeance of the Dead and many more”, p.232, e-artnow

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“Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.”
-- Robert Barr

Source : Robert Barr (2016). “The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont”, p.15, Oldcastle Books

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“The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.”
-- Robert Barr

Source : Robert Barr (2016). “The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont”, p.44, Oldcastle Books

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“Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.”
-- Robert Barr

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“It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.”

“Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.”

“Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.”

“Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.”

“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”

“There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”