Evan Hunter Quotes

American author and screenwriter (1926-2005)

(born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of genre.

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Alternative Names: Salvatore Albert Lombino • Hunt Collins • Curt Cannon • Dean Hudson • Richard Marsten • Ezra Hannon • John Abbott • Salvatore Lombino • Ed McBain

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He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to banish fear. And he sees it at its worst, as the result of violent emotions bursting into the mind and erupting from the hands.

He sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death imposed by law, the gradual death of confinement behind bars.

To spend his allotted time on earth as a bank teller or an insurance salesman would have seemed an utter waste to Rick. Women, he had reflected had no such problem. Creation had been given to them as a gift and a woman was self-sufficient within her own creative shell. A man needed more which perhaps was one reason why a woman could never understand a man’s concern for the job he had to do.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

They'd taught him how to milk cows, and now they expected him to tame lions.

He sees death in the prostitutes who have witnessed the death of honor, and daily multiply the death of love, who bleed away their own lives 50 times a day beneath the relentless stabbings of countless conjugations.