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Top 20 Paul Collins Quotes (2025 Update)

Paul Collins Quote: “Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It’s that you’re destroying the peg.”

1. “Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It’s that you’re destroying the peg.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “New York was the swing state in the upcoming presidential election – and Manhattan was the swing district in New York State. Control the city, and you controlled the 1800 presidential race.”

2. “New York was the swing state in the upcoming presidential election – and Manhattan was the swing district in New York State. Control the city, and you controlled the 1800 presidential race.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “If every man who wrote a story which was indirectly inspired by Poe were to pay a tithe towards a monument,” Doyle later mused, “it would be such as would dwarf the pyramids.”

3. “If every man who wrote a story which was indirectly inspired by Poe were to pay a tithe towards a monument,” Doyle later mused, “it would be such as would dwarf the pyramids.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “At five that morning, Edgar Allan Poe met the fate anticipated in his poem “To Annie”: Thank Heaven! the crisis – The danger is past, And the lingering illness, Is over at last – And the Fever called ‘Living’ Is conquer’d at last.”

4. “At five that morning, Edgar Allan Poe met the fate anticipated in his poem “To Annie”: Thank Heaven! the crisis – The danger is past, And the lingering illness, Is over at last – And the Fever called ‘Living’ Is conquer’d at last.”

— Paul Collins

Paul Collins Quote: “I been brought up a hatter,” he sighed, “people would have come into the world without heads.”

5. “I been brought up a hatter,” he sighed, “people would have come into the world without heads.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “And yet something unsettling remained about the notion of John Pastano as a willful murderer: the recollection, perhaps, that after murdering Mary Castro, he had filled his hat with her blood and wandered out into the street with it. When he was collared over by the Tea-Water Pump, broken English had spilled out from the man. “Why you catch me?” he asked innocently. “Me not do.”

6. “And yet something unsettling remained about the notion of John Pastano as a willful murderer: the recollection, perhaps, that after murdering Mary Castro, he had filled his hat with her blood and wandered out into the street with it. When he was collared over by the Tea-Water Pump, broken English had spilled out from the man. “Why you catch me?” he asked innocently. “Me not do.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultures crumble away, their books remain out of sheer stupid solidity.”

7. “If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultures crumble away, their books remain out of sheer stupid solidity.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “I know the ways of the Mafia.”

8. “I know the ways of the Mafia.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “On the morning of his funeral, the Baltimore Sun failed to announce the service, but mourned that his death “will cause poignant regret among all who admire genius, and have sympathy for the frailties too often attending it.”

9. “On the morning of his funeral, the Baltimore Sun failed to announce the service, but mourned that his death “will cause poignant regret among all who admire genius, and have sympathy for the frailties too often attending it.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “What you mean to find matters less than what you do find.”

10. “What you mean to find matters less than what you do find.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “So far as any literary genre can be said to have been invented by one author, Edgar Allan Poe is that author, and the detective story is that genre.”

11. “So far as any literary genre can be said to have been invented by one author, Edgar Allan Poe is that author, and the detective story is that genre.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the works of Cooper and Scott and Goethe, in finely tanned bindings with marbled endpapers, all end up with this sort of dealer sooner or later. I look through a set of Cooper and, without surprise, find uncut pages: these books were never actually read.”

12. “Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the works of Cooper and Scott and Goethe, in finely tanned bindings with marbled endpapers, all end up with this sort of dealer sooner or later. I look through a set of Cooper and, without surprise, find uncut pages: these books were never actually read.”

— Paul Collins

Paul Collins Quote: “Back then, Manhattan was the infant country.”

13. “Back then, Manhattan was the infant country.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “When Jules Verne was on everyone’s nightstand, Pulitzer ordered daredevil reporter Nellie Bly to travel around the world in eighty days; she accomplished it in seventy-two.”

14. “When Jules Verne was on everyone’s nightstand, Pulitzer ordered daredevil reporter Nellie Bly to travel around the world in eighty days; she accomplished it in seventy-two.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “Even the few streets with unobstructed brick sidewalks were comically narrow – just wide enough, as one chronicler put it, to accommodate “two lean men to walk abreast or one fat man alone.”

15. “Even the few streets with unobstructed brick sidewalks were comically narrow – just wide enough, as one chronicler put it, to accommodate “two lean men to walk abreast or one fat man alone.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “Such madness was strictly prohibited in New York, but not in New Jersey.”

16. “Such madness was strictly prohibited in New York, but not in New Jersey.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “You could expect bread, cheese, preserved apples, eggs, and a solid draft of warm beer. Tea and coffee were only slowly taking hold at breakfast in the finer houses, and the city’s old Dutch families still drank cocoa at breakfast.”

17. “You could expect bread, cheese, preserved apples, eggs, and a solid draft of warm beer. Tea and coffee were only slowly taking hold at breakfast in the finer houses, and the city’s old Dutch families still drank cocoa at breakfast.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “The assembly proceeded to the new grave that would come to serve as a burial place for Edgar, Virginia, and Aunt Maria, reuniting the peculiar household that been Poe’s sorrow and solace in life. There they read aloud his final poem, “Annabel Lee” – and in its last lines, the farewell of an artist finally at rest: And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling – my darling – my life and my bride In her sepulchre there by the sea – In her tomb by the sounding sea.”

18. “The assembly proceeded to the new grave that would come to serve as a burial place for Edgar, Virginia, and Aunt Maria, reuniting the peculiar household that been Poe’s sorrow and solace in life. There they read aloud his final poem, “Annabel Lee” – and in its last lines, the farewell of an artist finally at rest: And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling – my darling – my life and my bride In her sepulchre there by the sea – In her tomb by the sounding sea.”

— Paul Collins

Paul Collins Quote: “But this much is known: Hamilton shot into the trees. Burr, leveling his pistol at his foe, did not.”

19. “But this much is known: Hamilton shot into the trees. Burr, leveling his pistol at his foe, did not.”

— Paul Collins

Paul Collins Quote: “It is a telling commentary on how authors control what they write, but not what is read. Poe regarded his tales of ratiocination as something of a distraction; his great loves were poetry and his “prose poem,” Eureka. “The Raven” was indeed Poe’s most famous work during his lifetime, and time has not lessened its charms – but as art it is distinctly backward-looking.”

20. “It is a telling commentary on how authors control what they write, but not what is read. Poe regarded his tales of ratiocination as something of a distraction; his great loves were poetry and his “prose poem,” Eureka. “The Raven” was indeed Poe’s most famous work during his lifetime, and time has not lessened its charms – but as art it is distinctly backward-looking.”

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Paul Collins Quote: “Whether the world at large recognized him or his work, something had changed inside the shifting identity of the fugitive Edgar Allan Poe – something irrevocable. He was an author now.”

21. “Whether the world at large recognized him or his work, something had changed inside the shifting identity of the fugitive Edgar Allan Poe – something irrevocable. He was an author now.”

— Paul Collins

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