The Second Deadly Sin Quotes

“sometimes people use complete honesty as an excuse for sadism.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Second Deadly Sin

“He knew what was going on in painting in this country in the Fifties and Sixties. Abstract Expressionism, Pop-Art, Minimal, Op-Art, Less-is-More, Flat, all the avant-garde idiocies. But Maitland paid no attention to it. He went his way. Traditional. Representational. If he painted a tit, it was a tit.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Second Deadly Sin

“A painting did not have to be beautiful; it had to be true. Then it was beautiful.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Second Deadly Sin

“the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street, one of the city’s big ethnic festivals.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Second Deadly Sin