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"The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous."
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"No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field."
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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
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"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."
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"A murderer is a killer without a uniform."
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"A killer is someone who killed another without their country's permission."
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"I was having a field day down the Westend; my deep pockets were jingling and full of money nearly every day of the week. My brother's bird, Irene, wanted a fur coat, so I got her one by throwing a brick through the shop window and grabbing the coat off the shop dummy. Once I got to the bed-sit, I put the jacket on and waltzed in to the flat looking like Liberace, the two of them burst out laughing. Irene was like a tramp eating chips. 'Let's try it on, Jimmy, please?' As she swooned around like Joan Collins with the fur coat on, she had the air of a council estate beauty queen about her."
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"Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!"
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"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
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"In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it."
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"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
Hope
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
Purpose
"My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy."
Love
"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
Man
"If music be the food of love, play on."
Food
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
Soul
"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
Heart
"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
Mind
"A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!"
Life
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
Fool
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