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Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. Cooper as "The most original and best spy-kids authors of the century." (New York Times). Anthony has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he is also the writer and creator of award winning detective series Foyle’s War, and more recently event drama Collision, among his other television works he has written episodes for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. Anthony became patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices in 2009.

On 19 January 2011, the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle announced that Horowitz was to be the writer of a new Sherlock Holmes novel, the first such effort to receive an official endorsement from them and to be entitled the House of Silk.

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“Whoever this man was, he seemed to have less life than anyone in the cemetery. Above or below ground.”
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“You have to take responsibility for who you are”
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“For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?”
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“…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.”
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“The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.”
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“What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.”"Were you planning to attack me?” "No. But that’s a good idea.”
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“Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?”"Because they’re talented.”
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“McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.”
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“You see the world this way because you’re greedy and mad. People give to charity because they want to help.”
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“When you are rich, people treat you with respect.”
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“We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time.""I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.”
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“I have a couple of questions," he said."Do, please, go ahead.""My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why are you working for this lunatic?""I sometimes think that I was richer when I was eight years old than most people will be in their lifetime!""Do we have to listen to this?" Alex asked.”
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“You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.”
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“Their proof-reader tried to kill herself. She shot herself with a gun.”
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“masa kanak-kanak adalah koin berharga pertama yang dicuri oleh kemiskinan dari seorang anak”
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“I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.”
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“Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.”
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“Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.”
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“Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.”
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“If they find me, they will kill me. But my life is not in question here. You are all that matters.”
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“You must not be weak!”
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“We only see what we want to see.”
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“There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.”
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“There are many things in life that cannot be explained.”
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“Some things can't be changed. They'll always happen the way they were supposed to.”
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“He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.”
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“There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.”
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“We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.”
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“You must do what you want.”
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“They can't make you do anything you don't want to do.”
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“We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.”
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“You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.”
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“We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.”
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“If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.”
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“He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him... everytime.”
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“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”
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“He who fight monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.”
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“Death is the same for the one who dies.”
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“You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.”
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“Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.”
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“They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.”
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“It's funny how things work out sometimes.”
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“You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.”
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“To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.”
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“He died fighting for what he believed in.”
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“You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.”
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“You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.”
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“Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.”
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“I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.”
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“Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.”
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