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“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
“In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday alw...”
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”
“Feeling - what authentic human fun!”
“I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money ...”
“A glass poured to air for the one who sits with us unseen; the patron and protector, the Crooked Warden, the Father of Necessary Pretexts. Thanks for deep pockets poorly guarded. Thanks for watchme...”
“A society gets the criminals it deserves.”
“Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.”
“It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.”
“Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjus...”
“I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two o...”
“It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had ar...”
“The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist in averting their gaze from the e...”
“Stealing to eat aint criminalstealing to be rich is.”
“The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.”
“But people like the doll guy who sells women and the dog guy who buys women, and other guys who, say, rape women, or maybe dont go as far as violent rape but treat women like objects instead of peo...”
“He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?' Ronald said.I didn't say anything.'You're breathing heavy.”
“I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.”
“Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.”
“The security officer smiled and said, Good afternoon, maam, to me before Igave him ID.Its a sick world, Eve. He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. A sick,sad world.”
