Jack Kerouac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I'm a perfectionist to a fault.
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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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Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
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I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
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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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It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
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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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The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
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I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.
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I am sorry," was all Drizzt could quietly mouth. Vierna shook her head, refusing any apology. To Drizzt, it seemed as if that buried part of her that was Zaknafein Do'Urden's daughter approved of this ending.
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I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.
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If you don't believe something, then don't say it. Saying it only gives it power. ~Betty White
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
