Crime Quotes - Page 32

• The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes. Overseas, my books are reviewed alongside those of authors like Robert Stone and Don DeLillo, and I have to live and die by that comparison. They don't ghettoize crime writers in other countries, and of course they shouldn't.

  George Pelecanos

  Country, Book, Cat

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, War, Tired

  "Sir Charles Has Some Royal Proclamations". Interview with Larry Stewart, articles.latimes.com. April 19, 2003.

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• A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Art, Greatness, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I am thy father's spirit;
  Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night
  And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires,
  Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature,
  Are burnt and purg'd away.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Night, Fire

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.215

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• Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

  William Shakespeare

  Guilty, Glory, Grows

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1453, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

  Jo Nesbo

  Christian, Revenge, Demand

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• I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

  Jo Nesbo

  Book, Crime Novels, Novel

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• In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.

  Stephen King

  Strong, Dark, Light

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• The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights.

  Frank Miller

  Girl, Real, Kids

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• I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Errors, Childhood, Dungeons

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Correction: A Novel”, p.172, Vintage

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• When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

  Plato

  Justice

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• Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Punishment, Unforgivable, Stabbing

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• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Law, Strong Arms

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• The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.

  John Scalzi

  Snacks, Steps, Gang

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• Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

  Tim Wise

  Guarantees, Way, Problem

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• When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.

  Gerald Celente

  People, Levels, Ugly

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• You're going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival that of a Third World country. Welcome Mexico City. You're going to start seeing people being kidnapped in this country like they do in other underdeveloping nations. It's going to be very violent in America.

  Gerald Celente

  Country, Cities, America

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• The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.

  Gerald Celente

  Running, People, Boss

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• I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Army, Mexican, Police

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• Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Sadness, Stories, Behinds

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• Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

  Denise Mina

  Brother, Kids, Female

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

  Denise Mina

  Feet, Fiction, Tricks

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• Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

  Matt Taibbi

  Heat, Syndicate, International

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• I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

  Asa Larsson

  Children, Father, Book

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• Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various countries. What honest people are saying seems to be incomprehensible: that we should keep to the elementary moral level of the gospels. We should pay attention to our own crimes and stop committing them. This would be true even if we were killing one person, OK? And it's even more true when we're killing millions of people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Wings, People

  "Noam Chomsky On the Middle East and the US War on Terrorism". "Hot Type" with Evan Solomon, dissidentvoice.org. April 16, 2002.

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