Greg Iles quotes
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“Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.”
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (2004). “The Footprints of God”, p.268, Simon and Schuster
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“I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.”
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (1999). “The Quiet Game”, p.468, Penguin
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“The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.”
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (2009). “The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel”, p.586, Simon and Schuster
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“My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.”
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“I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.”
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“Some things we must pass over in silence.”
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (2006). “Turning Angel: A Novel”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
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“See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.”
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“Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.”
-- Greg IlesSource : "Evil under the sun" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.
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“My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels,”
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“If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.”
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“Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.”
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (2004). “The Footprints of God”, p.292, Simon and Schuster
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“When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.”
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (2011). “The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel”, p.100, Simon and Schuster
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“Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.”
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (2002). “Dead Sleep”, p.257, Penguin
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“Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.”
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (2003). “The Footprints of God”, p.428, Simon and Schuster
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“He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness, waiting to spread to fire.”
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (2004). “The Footprints of God”, p.293, Simon and Schuster
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“A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my fear someone will carry it out.”
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