Pat Brown Quotes
What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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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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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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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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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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My personal style is ever changing.
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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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
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Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.
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I've always been very conscious of who I am.
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Believing that all has been ordained by God can lead to fatalism, but fatalism is not the same thing as belief. It's a cheat: an abdication of responsibility.
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
