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“A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.”
“You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.”
“It is now recognised that dissociation is a way of forgetting, for a time. The mind siphons off the bad memories into a separate part, and reclaiming those hidden-away memories us a complex process...”
“it felt increasingly, as I became more whole, that I had made it all up, and that I was a phoney. I had to come to some place of acceptance. If I made it all up, then I am an unspeakably evil perso...”
“Crime begins with God. It will end with man, when he finds God again. Crime is everywhere, in all the fibres and roots of our being. Every minute of the day adds fresh crimes to the calendar, both ...”
“...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...”
“That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.”
“Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To re...”
“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”
“If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the...”
“...because loving you is a crime. Which I love to commit each time, every day, whenever I see you, because that's how I love you.”
“POVERTY CRIME When you push peopleInto the throes of povertyThey tend to think their value lowAnd so do they yours They will not think it graveTo lose their low valued livesAnd so will they not yours”
“The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.”
“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”
“She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential ...”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.Winston Churchill”
“My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.”
“You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!”
“Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.--Hugo Anstead”
“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow - James Matthew Barrie”
