Judith Flanders Quotes

It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth century, it was easy to think of murder that way.

Judith Flanders

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• Murder
• 19th-Century

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• It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth century, it was easy to think of murder that way.

  

  Judith Flanders
  • Safety
  • Murder
  • 19th-Century