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Crime Quotes
Crime, fear, and what a society owes the victim.
This crime quotes collection includes a stark line about crime and its fear shaping American life, and a pointed connection drawn between illiteracy and resorting to crime. See Criminal Justice quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.
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When I began to write, I was surprised at how little London had been used in crime fiction. Places such as Edinburgh or Oxford or L.A. seemed to have stronger identities.
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Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.
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The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.
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You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.
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I'm not at all upset to be considered a crime novelist. But for me, it's never really about the crime or the violence. I'm much more interested in exploring issues.
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
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I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.
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What's interesting is, say, the O.J. trial and when the verdict came out, and there were people who celebrated, and there were people who thought that he's guilty, and it's a crime. Those reactions tend to be filtered through our own experiences.
- Nov 07, 2020
Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
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