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"A murderer is a killer without a uniform."
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"The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous."
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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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"Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the story of how I murdered my wife, They asked me in court how I killed her, what I used to do it with. Imbeciles! They thought I killed her that day, the fifth of October, with a knife. It wasn't that day I killed her, it was much earlier. Exactly in the same way as they're killing their wives now, all of them..."
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"The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash."
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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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"In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great."
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"Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off."
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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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"Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there."
People
"For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean."
People
"I always want to give the victim a voice."
Voice
"I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away."
Woman
"Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials."
Love
"Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books."
Books
"The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how."
Crime
"Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work."
Work
"I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten."
Woman
"All of my books now come from readers' ideas."
Creativity
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