Kerry Greenwood quotes
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“If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”
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“There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.”
-- Kerry GreenwoodSource : Kerry Greenwood (2004). “Queen of the Flowers”, p.10, Allen & Unwin
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“I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.”
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“I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.”
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“And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.”
-- Kerry GreenwoodSource : Kerry Greenwood (2011). “Cocaine Blues”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
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“I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.”
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“I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.”
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