Mark Steyn Quotes
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.
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We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?
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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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The situation Abraham Lincoln faced was unique. In his view, the United States was threatened with destruction, ruin, overthrow, perishing - all words that he used - which is not the case for any other president, including the current one - Barack Obama.
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The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.
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The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
