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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame. ↗

— Howard Coble

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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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