- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of the crime, perhaps - and be confident that the jury would deduce all of the finer-grained implications that must logically follow.
- Fearless
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pete Moffat writes crime conspiracy thrillers so beautifully. He goes places other people wouldn't; he is fearless.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In crime, I like Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke. As for historical books, I enjoy Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, and C. S. Forester - anything with battleships!
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020