"The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that."
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"To have committed every crime but that of being a father."
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"The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know."
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"I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment."
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"We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang."
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"Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened."
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"Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws."
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"Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone."
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"... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending."
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"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
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"Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime."
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"Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell."
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"Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof."
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"Responsibility prevents crimes."
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"Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love."
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"Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice."
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"Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact."
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"The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes."
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"All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level."
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"Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off."
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