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Erle Stanley Gardner (1889 – 1970) was an American lawyer and author. He is best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico. The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr.
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“I like what I like and not what I’m supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don’t like.”
“Now listen, Len," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.”
“We’re a dramatic people,” Perry Mason said slowly. “We’re not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It’s a national craving. We’re geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner.”
“When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.”
“I told you just what she was—all velvet and claws!”
“I take it," the lawyer remarked musingly, “patience isn’t one of your virtues.” “I didn’t know,” she said, "that patience WAS a virtue.”
"I can remember way back. Even then all politicians were promising economy, and still it wasn’t new. They’d always hold up the extravagances of the past administration before the horrified eyes of the voters. They’d pledge greater economy and get elected.—And there’s never a case on record where a politician hasn’t spent more than his predecessor in office.”
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“I like what I like and not what I’m supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don’t like.”
“Now listen, Len," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.”
“We’re a dramatic people,” Perry Mason said slowly. “We’re not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It’s a national craving. We’re geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner.”
“When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.”
“I told you just what she was—all velvet and claws!”
“I take it," the lawyer remarked musingly, “patience isn’t one of your virtues.” “I didn’t know,” she said, "that patience WAS a virtue.”
"I can remember way back. Even then all politicians were promising economy, and still it wasn’t new. They’d always hold up the extravagances of the past administration before the horrified eyes of the voters. They’d pledge greater economy and get elected.—And there’s never a case on record where a politician hasn’t spent more than his predecessor in office.”
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