Gershon Legman Quotes
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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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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
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In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.
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I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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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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False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.
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I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.
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Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.
