Victor Hugo Quotes
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
Quotes to Explore
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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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 will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.
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When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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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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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'
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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.
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I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
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The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
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Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
