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Evan Hunter Quotes

1926–2005 United States

Evan Hunter (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 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of police procedural genre.

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Also known as: Ed McBain

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

The Blackboard Jungle (1954)

They reached for the leather cases to which their shields were pinned. Simultaneously, they pinned the tin to their collars and then walked toward the desk behind which another patrolman was seated.

Cop Hater (1958)

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.

The Blackboard Jungle (1954)

Everybody has a right to earn a living. That's the American way. ... The law doesn't quarrel with a man's inalienable right to pursue the buck. The law only questions and method and means of acquiring the elusive green.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Evan Hunter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.