George Pelecanos Quotes

Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.

I write from my heart, so everything I say, I say with force.

A lot of people think I reacted a little too emotionally when I said, 'If I can't beat Adrian Neville, I'm done.' But the truth is, my whole life, I've always followed my heart and my emotions.

Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!

Isn't it possible that I'm not feigning interest? That I really do want to know more about you?" "You've never been interested in me before." "You've never been interesting before." -Cassandra and Paige

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

What I don't like about Guinevere is the fact that she can't control her passions and urges. She gets herself into quite a love triangle, and quite a web. Personally, I find that very difficult to relate to. But, it wouldn't be interesting, if she did everything right.

To me this is not yelling. I am not yelling. I'm just passionate about my opinions and I want to tell you all of them before you start talking again.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.

The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.