Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
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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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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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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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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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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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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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
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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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What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting.
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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
