Leslie Ford Quotes

• It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.

  Leslie Ford

  Zero, Average, League

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• I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

  Leslie Ford

  Men, Important, Groups

  Zenith Brown, Leslie Ford (2018). “Ill Met by Moonlight”, p.109, Wildside Press LLC

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• It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.

  Leslie Ford

  Disillusioned, Disillusion

  Leslie Ford (1941). “The Murder of a Fifth Columnist”

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• Al capitán Crawford no le gustaba la idea de ningún tipo de asesinato, pero lo hacía con paciencia y honestidad y sin ninguna de las estupideces, ampulosidades y técnicas de manguera de goma que los escritores de novela negra de Los Ángeles me habían hecho esperar. Me había dado la impresión de que, a menos que un aficionado con talento enamorado de la dama se hiciera casi papilla y prácticamente entrara en la cámara de gas letal antes de desenmascarar a la venal y embrutecida policía, cualquier transeúnte inocente al que pudieran echar el guante era un pato perdido.

  Leslie Ford

  Bystanders, Hands, Ideas

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• More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

  Leslie Ford

  People, Enemy, Ruined

  Leslie Ford, Zenith Jones Brown (1937). “The Simple Way of Poison”

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• The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.

  Leslie Ford

  Feet, People, Left

  Zenith Brown, Leslie Ford (2018). “Ill Met by Moonlight”, p.112, Wildside Press LLC

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• There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

  Leslie Ford

  Believe, Thinking, Miracle

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• Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.

  Leslie Ford

  Success, Decided

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• If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.

  Leslie Ford

  Dark, Light, Knows

  Leslie Ford, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Anthony Gilbert (1955). “Murder comes to Eden”

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• Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.

  Leslie Ford

  Men, Car, Ruins

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• bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.

  Leslie Ford

  Care, Bitterness

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• Ahora está en el Oeste democrático, señora. Cualquiera es tan bueno como el que más mientras tenga pasta para demostrarlo.

  Leslie Ford

  Long, West, Dough

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• Do you have to do murder?
  Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.

  Leslie Ford

  Writing, Two, Stories

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• ...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back.

  Leslie Ford

  Track, Technique, Teeth

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• A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.

  Leslie Ford

  Cities, Kitchen, Secret

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