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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 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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"That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering..."
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"Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder."
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"The criminal is the creative artist, the detective only the critic."
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"[Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don't know how that shadow is going to affect our lives."
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"There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions."
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"Don't go, said Cedric. "Murder has made you practically one of the family."
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"The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race."
God
"But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep."
Love
"Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?"
Old
"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
Experience
"The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear."
Fear
"The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?"
Love
"Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name."
Poetry
"Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die."
Heart
"My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise."
Lie
"To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other."
Crime
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