"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."

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"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."

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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

Crime, Evil, Recognition, Criminals, Study

"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

Crime,

"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

Crime, Mystery, Logic, Investigation

"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

Crime, Culture, Irony, Fiction

"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!"

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Crime, Mystery, Suspense, Observation

"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

Crime, Disgrace

Explore more quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

Life

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

Thought

"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."

Lie

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

Experience

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

Knowledge

"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

Reality

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

God

"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."

Power

"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

Genius

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

Books