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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After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
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Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
