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"In violence, we forget who we are."
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
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"I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)"
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"Do you know what I think?" Marcone said."You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.""Yes."I drew my gun. "Okay."
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"Begin to see the violence around you, begin to see the violence within you."
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"Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later."
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"He kills her in her own humor."
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"Was there ever a war where only one side bled?"
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"As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road."
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"Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone."
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"May be the power lies in the hands of the one who holds the gun... so he just presses the trigger whenever the slightest streak of anger passes his mind... and after a few haunting days he roams freely in the country without fear .. and what about the one who faces the wrath and bears the bullets? He leaves a movement behind... but haven't such movements always been ephemeral? Is death the price you need to pay to open the eyes of those who care but just for a couple of days?"
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"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."
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"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
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