"Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has penetrated that darkness so memorably - you can even say beautifully, a relentless riveting forensic dark beauty that some readers in fact find themselves unable to endure - as Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Especially in "The Part about the Crimes." But here's the thing: nobody would call 2666 a "narco novel.""
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"I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime."
"Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others."
"Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are."
"Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims."
"Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal."
"Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless."
"You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it."
"It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced."
"The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns."
"The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense."
"The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country."
"There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones."
"Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime."
"The living grave of crime."
"Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused."
"Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes."
"Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before."
"Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees."
"Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?"