"Lawrence Block" is an American crime fiction/crime writer best known for two long-running New York city/New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic Private Investigator/P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman thief/gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994.

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Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

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Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

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One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

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