7 Quotes by Leslie Ford

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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.

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    You can always tell duty. It's what you don't want to do--it's what you fight against inside you. Duty's when you realize how it'll hurt other people and you choose between that and what would be easiest for you.

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

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    Her Dream Prince, Gee Gee, was, then, and of course still might be, though I'd always thought of a Dream Prince as having more hair and less avoirdupois.

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    ...it's hard to confine an irrational woman in a rational pattern, so I had no idea really what was in her mind.

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    Lilac makes on occasion a sound between a sniff and a snort that's as damning as all improper words in the language and, like them, can't be written down.

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