Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
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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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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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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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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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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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There is no greater crime than desire.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
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It's a whole nother aspect of this life that most people have no idea about. There's the loved ones, the wives, the girlfriends, the children. Some of the people out here are fathers and mothers. Whether you mean to or not, you end up neglecting your family in a lot of ways. Even if you do your best to keep in touch, the fact of the matter is that you're physically absent.
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The account of the face treatment that Catherine had undergone at the hands of a quack was taken from a description given to Elizabeth by Katherine Mansfield, her New Zealand cousin, of her own experience in Paris when she was searching for a cure for consumption. This may have been too tragic a source. If Elizabeth needed copy she had, if Frere is to be believed, her own experience to draw on.
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I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.
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To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
