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Top 30 Martin Cruz Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.”

1. “The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.”

2. “Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.”

3. “Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “I used to be treated like an idiot, now I’m treated like an idiot savant.”

4. “I used to be treated like an idiot, now I’m treated like an idiot savant.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “I hate to be categorized.”

5. “I hate to be categorized.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.”

6. “Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Proust said that you could seduce any woman if you were willing to sit and listen to her complain until four in the morning.”

7. “Proust said that you could seduce any woman if you were willing to sit and listen to her complain until four in the morning.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that’s one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you’d know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.”

8. “Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that’s one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you’d know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “All nights should be so dark, all winters so warm, all headlights so dazzling. The.”

9. “All nights should be so dark, all winters so warm, all headlights so dazzling. The.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “What killed expert swimmers practicing underwater laps in pools was not a strangling on water but the soft oblivion of oxygen deprivation. At the end they no more than gently stirred, even if in the last lit cell in their brain they were still stroking powerfully ahead.”

10. “What killed expert swimmers practicing underwater laps in pools was not a strangling on water but the soft oblivion of oxygen deprivation. At the end they no more than gently stirred, even if in the last lit cell in their brain they were still stroking powerfully ahead.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.”

11. “To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.”

12. “Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “The most beautiful women in the world were African.”

13. “The most beautiful women in the world were African.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “In an unjust society a man may violate laws for valid social or economic reasons. In a just society there are no valid reasons except mental illness.”

14. “In an unjust society a man may violate laws for valid social or economic reasons. In a just society there are no valid reasons except mental illness.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.”

15. “It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.”

16. “High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.”

17. “As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Well, love was no fading violet; love was a weed that flourished in the dark. Has anyone ever explained it?”

18. “Well, love was no fading violet; love was a weed that flourished in the dark. Has anyone ever explained it?”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “I’m very aware when I’m speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.”

19. “I’m very aware when I’m speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it – London, the people of the south.”

20. “If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it – London, the people of the south.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Wolves eat dogs.” That did seem to be the consensus of the village, Arkady thought. Roman shook his head as if he’d given the matter a lot of consideration. “Wolves hate dogs. Wolves hunt down dogs because they regard them as traitors. If you think about it, dogs are dogs only because of humans; otherwise they’d all be wolves, right? And where will we be when all the dogs are gone? It will be the end of civilization.”

21. “Wolves eat dogs.” That did seem to be the consensus of the village, Arkady thought. Roman shook his head as if he’d given the matter a lot of consideration. “Wolves hate dogs. Wolves hunt down dogs because they regard them as traitors. If you think about it, dogs are dogs only because of humans; otherwise they’d all be wolves, right? And where will we be when all the dogs are gone? It will be the end of civilization.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “These enemies of society are to be driven out of New York regardless of their constitutional rights.’ The.”

22. “These enemies of society are to be driven out of New York regardless of their constitutional rights.’ The.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “There are not many road signs in Russia, you know. He laughed. If you don’t know where the road goes, you shouldn’t be on it.”

23. “There are not many road signs in Russia, you know. He laughed. If you don’t know where the road goes, you shouldn’t be on it.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.”

24. “Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I’m such a slow writer.”

25. “I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I’m such a slow writer.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Arkady was an Investigator of Special Cases, and if a bear running loose in the heart of Moscow was not a special case, he didn’t know what was.”

26. “Arkady was an Investigator of Special Cases, and if a bear running loose in the heart of Moscow was not a special case, he didn’t know what was.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Drunks sagged and leaned like broken pickets on a fence.”

27. “Drunks sagged and leaned like broken pickets on a fence.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “How easily, without noticing, a man finds himself parallel to the life he meant to have, then arrives, years later, to find the band gone, flowers dead, love past.”

28. “How easily, without noticing, a man finds himself parallel to the life he meant to have, then arrives, years later, to find the band gone, flowers dead, love past.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “A nurse the size of a shipping hazard peered over him and smiled. Some of her teeth were missing, some were gold, and the sight was so unnerving that Arkady hoped he wouldn’t give her cause to smile again.”

29. “A nurse the size of a shipping hazard peered over him and smiled. Some of her teeth were missing, some were gold, and the sight was so unnerving that Arkady hoped he wouldn’t give her cause to smile again.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “One out of every five mammals on the face of the earth is a bat.”

30. “One out of every five mammals on the face of the earth is a bat.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Lo principal era tratar de no dejar nunca mal parado a un adversario, ashanti, fanti, mexicano o lo que fuere.”

31. “Lo principal era tratar de no dejar nunca mal parado a un adversario, ashanti, fanti, mexicano o lo que fuere.”

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Martin Cruz Smith Quote: “Everyone is too young when their mother dies.”

32. “Everyone is too young when their mother dies.”

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