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Carl Hiaasen, né le 12 mars 1953 à Fort Lauderdale, en Floride, est un journaliste et romancier américain. Il écrit aussi bien pour les adultes que des ouvrages de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse. Deux de ses romans ont été adaptés au cinéma sous les titres Striptease, réalisé par Andrew Bergman en 1996, et Hoot, réalisé par Wil Shriner en 2006. Wikipedia

✵ 12. mars 1953

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Carl Hiaasen Citations

“-Elle m'appelle encore ton "ex-père"?
-Ça lui arrive, répondit Fry. D'autres fois c'est juste ton vaurien de narcotrafiquants de père.”

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Carl Hiaasen: Citations en anglais

“'The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.' That's from Emerson, by the way. All I was hoping to do is stretch some goddamn minds.”

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Carl Hiaasen livre Squeeze Me

Epilogue
Novels, Squeeze Me (2020)

“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”

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“Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.”

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Carl Hiaasen Strip Tease

Source: Strip Tease

“Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.”

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Carl Hiaasen livre Hoot

Source: Hoot

“Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.”

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Carl Hiaasen livre Chomp

Source: Chomp

“I try not to stand on a soapbox and scream. That's boring. You've got to be funny sometimes. All my humor comes from anger. Satire is terrific therapy. Making people laugh is a joy, but making them think about something serious is the ultimate reward.”

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"Ready to Give a Hoot", by Margaret Wappler; Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2006
Interviews

“In my business, fear is a sane and very healthy emotion. That's because death and disaster aren't abstractions. They're as goddamn real as real can be.”

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Source: Novels, Lucky You (1997), Chapter 5

“A Ph.D. in microbiology is not necessary to grasp the concept: Clean water is good. Poopy water is bad.”

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"Modern world puts evolution into reverse", July 6, 1995 (reprinted in Kick-Ass: Selected Columns)
Columns and articles

“I know you're not a stupid person, so why would you ask such a stunningly stupid question?”

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Carl Hiaasen livre Squeeze Me

Source: Novels, Squeeze Me (2020), Chapter 28