Quote by Carl Hiaasen
Heres my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, bec

Heres my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then theres this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. – Carl Hiaasen

Other quotes by Carl Hiaasen

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding. – Carl Hiaasen

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Humor
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. – Carl Hiaasen

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Morning
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I dont just get angry and jump on a soapbox. – Carl Hiaasen

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I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. – Aneurin Bevan

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Sympathy

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. – Jerome K. Jerome

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Sympathy

You dont go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. – Nigella Lawson

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Sympathy

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. – Hjalmar Schacht

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Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun. – Ziggy Marley

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Hes really sort of the devil. Hes completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. Its about power with Voldemort. Its an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. – Ralph Fiennes

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. – Blaise Pascal

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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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