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With Regard To Power, Women Don't Have The Vanity Men Have. They Don't Need To Make Power Visible, They Only Want The Power To Give Them The Other Things They Want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They Are Rational, Power-seeking Planners, Who Think Beyond The Battle, Beyond The Victory Celebrations. And Because They Have An Inborn Capacity To See Weakness In Their Victims, They Know Instinctively When And How To Strike. And When To Stop. You Can't Learn That.

Good Police Officers Are Ugly.

Many Scandinavian Writers Who Had Made Their Name In Literary Fiction Felt They Wanted To Have A Go At The Crime Novel To Show They Could Compete With The Best. If Salman Rushdie Had Been Norwegian, He Would Definitely Have Written At Least One Thriller.

In Most Sports, Your Brain And Your Body Will Cooperate... But In Rock Climbing, It Is The Other Way Around. Your Brain Doesn't See The Point In Climbing Upwards. Your Brain Will Tell You To Keep As Low As Possible, To Cling To The Wall And Not Get Any Higher. You Have To Have Your Brain Persuading Your Body To Do The Right Movements.

...he Went Into The Sitting Room, Put On A Duke Ellington Record He Had Bought After Seeing Gene Hackman Sitting On The Overnight Bus In The Conversation To The Sound Of Some Fragile Piano Notes That Were The Loneliest Harry Had Ever Heard.