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1. "If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak." ~ Lawrence Block
2. "Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself." ~ Lawrence Block
3. "You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education." ~ Lawrence Block
4. "We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places." ~ Lawrence Block
5. "It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.--Mick Ballou" ~ Lawrence Block
6. "Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up." ~ Lawrence Block
7. "I dialed it now, and the machine picked up. I listened to a dead man's voice. I hung up, wondering how long it would be before someone unplugged the machine, how long before the telephone company cut off the phone service.You don't die all at once. Not anymore. These days you die a little at a time." ~ Lawrence Block
8. "Everybody has mean little places inside himself." ~ Lawrence Block
9. "Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young." ~ Lawrence Block
10. "I settled for a cup of coffee. Only it wasn't coffee. It was a coffee substitute made by grinding up dandelion roots. The idea was that it wouldn't keep you awake, and it's always seemed to me that the only thing coffee really has going for it is that it will keep you awake." ~ Lawrence Block
11. "What time is it?""Time?""Time.""Oh," She said. "A quarter to four. Mr. Markham, something terrible has happened."She didn't have to tell me that. Something perfectly dreadful had happened, by God. Someone had called me in the middle of the bloody night." ~ Lawrence Block
12. "One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off." ~ Lawrence Block
13. "You know, it was a revelation to me to learn that I don't have to be comfortable. Nowhere is it written that I must be comfortable. I always thought if I felt nervous or anxious or unhappy I had to do something about it. But I learned that's not true. Bad feelings won't kill me. Alcohol will kill me, but my feelings won't." ~ Lawrence Block
14. "Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer?" ~ Lawrence Block
15. "My glass was empty. I poured more scotch into it, took a small sip, and all at once the silly thing was empty again. Strange. Then it was full again. And then it was empty again. Strange, I thought. Fool glass must have a hole in it. Scotch disappears the instant it's poured. Strange. Then I was stretched out on the bed, too tired and too drunk to bother removing my shoes. My eyes closed themselves and the world crept away on little cat feet, leaving me floating in the middle of the air." ~ Lawrence Block
16. "As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don't have to give a rat's ass about." ~ Lawrence Block
17. "He's got a new BMW now, thanks to the Galaxy. He can't spell it, but he can drive it like crazy." ~ Lawrence Block
18. "Your unconscious mind takes the things you can't handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn off." ~ Lawrence Block
19. "Fuck you! I hope you die!""Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you." ~ Lawrence Block
20. "The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one..." ~ Lawrence Block
21. "Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts." ~ Lawrence Block
22. "New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough." ~ Lawrence Block
23. "Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding." ~ Lawrence Block
24. "I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me." ~ Lawrence Block
25. "I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction." ~ Lawrence Block
26. "I've always essentially been a New Yorker." ~ Lawrence Block
27. "Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?" ~ Lawrence Block
28. "We're all whirling merrily through the void on a dying planet, and gay people are just doing their usual number, being shamelessly trendy as always. Right out in front on the cutting edge of death." ~ Lawrence Block

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