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• I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).

  Barbara Mertz

  Long, Doubt, Gold

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• Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

  John Steinbeck

  Brother, Men, Hands

  "East of Eden".

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• The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize Paradise even when he is shown it.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Heart, Gun

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• What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.

  George Saunders

  War, Guy, Slaughterhouse Five

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.82, A&C Black

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• It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.

  Regina Doman

  New York, Sleep, Night

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• Murder your darlings.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Darling

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• If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

  Jasper Fforde

  Art, Hate, Passion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder

  Leonard Cohen

  Heaven, Devil, Riding

  Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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• We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

  Joan Didion

  Suicide, Order, Multiple Choice

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 13, 2011

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• Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Hands, Stealing

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• If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Kings, Parent, Disrespect

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.27, Routledge

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• Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.

  Bill Watterson

  Cannibalism, Debate, Leniency

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract).

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Children, Book

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.115, Portobello Books

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• Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Cities, Choices, Firsts

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• In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Kings, Years, Black

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.107, Broadway Books

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• I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Agony, Drunk

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• morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Pain, Moving

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• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

  Mark Haddon

  Facts, Victim, Members

  Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens (2013). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play”, p.21, A&C Black

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• My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

  Joyce Brothers

  Marriage, Husband, Divorce

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• If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

  Eoin Colfer

  Null, Debt, Void

  Eoin Colfer (2006). “Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception”, Miramax

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• How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

  Alice Sebold

  Games, Perfect, Heaven

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Execution, Depends

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Believe, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

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• They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

  Walker Percy

  Suicide, Thinking, Opposites

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.84, Open Road Media

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