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"Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates."
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"Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference."
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"Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable?"
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"On general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes."
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"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."
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"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so."
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"The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be."
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"How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons."
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"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."
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"They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place."
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"Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
Relationship
"I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes."
Spiritual
"I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics."
Relationship
"Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."
Writing
"The most expensive sex is free sex."
Behavior
"When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back."
Behavior
"Showing up is 80 percent of life."
Motivation
"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."
Action
"Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate."
Society
"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."
Pleasure
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