"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."

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"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."

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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."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Crime, Assault, Court, Prison, Justice

"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."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Crime, Violence, Police, Resilience, Pain

"Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable?"

Stephen Richards, British Author

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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."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Crime, Loneliness, Presence, Absence

"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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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."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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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."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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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."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Crime, Murder, Police, Justice, Guilt

"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."

Horace, Roman Poet

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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."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Man, Mind, Order, Pain

"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."

Life,

"Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."

Life, Fact, Mystery, Nothing

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Chance,

"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

Criticism, America, Chance, Old

"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

Action, Fact, Mystery, Philosophy

"Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him."

Love, Pain, Despair, Art

"I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit."

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"I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf."

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"No stone was laid upon another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thing has been added to another in a mad scramble to fill the belly, and the streets smell of empty bellies and full bellies and bellies half full. The streets smell of a hunger which has nothing to do with love; they smell of the belly which is insatiable and of the creations of the empty belly which are null and void."

Society, Hunger, Greed, Decay