Quotes from Clifford Irving

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

And also don't forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.

fishing equipment and lawn mowers, bought the goods in one branch of Kmart and then returned them in other branches for a full refund. Like most crooks with a workable scam, Virgil Freer did it once

Could be. Unlikely, but

He was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.

at first we love the illusion of perfection. Later we come to love imperfections, because they signal vulnerability: and what we love, we yearn to protect.

If you take big risks there are big rewards.

Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies.

Life moved on like a river, and water could not long remember the bruise it had received from a rock upstream.

Except for the three grave sins of murder, incest and idolatry, it was axiomatic in Halakhah that every commandment of the Torah might be violated to save a human life. But the rabbi also knew the mitzvah that commanded a Jew to be unafraid of any danger in the proclamation of his true faith. "'Let

goddam upset me." She

figure it out together. Work as a team. You game to

buzz in his head was wonderfully liberating,

Do what has to be done, he thought. Do it quickly and well. You're a professional. Pay the price… whatever it may be. Head

But he was a stranger and we tend to believe whatever we first hear about strangers.

Why do politicians have one more brain cell than horses do?" Riddles were her favorites, he guessed. He said that he didn't know why. "So they won't shit on the street during parades." He

You got the firing squad?" "No, that's inhuman—those guys can miss and they gutshoot you. You hang a man, that knot can slip and he can strangle. Electric chair, he sizzles, been known to catch fire. Gas chamber, he pukes and yells. Texas is more modern. Here we drug a man, then inject cyanide into a vein. They say it doesn't hurt. No one's ever come back to say yea or nay." Pedro

West in Buffalo Bayou. Why don't they like that? "Because it casts reasonable doubt on David West's story! "It is unreasonable to believe that a woman was

The Bible's a lot of regurgitated garbage. There's no way all the truth can be contained in one book.

on the list of priorities my ass is number one, and my ass is also number two. My soul's in a distant third place.

That's it," Darryl cried, seemingly flabbergasted.

If someone's friendly to me, it's my nature to be friendly back to them. But a soldier who's not scared of the bullets is a fool.