"Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control."
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"There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again"
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"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not."
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"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."
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"Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive."
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"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."
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"We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder."
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"All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery."
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"To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims."
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"Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long."
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"There will be time to murder and create."
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"The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god)."
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"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."
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"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
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"Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God."
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"A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial."
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"I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me."
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"Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder."
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"We're too busy busting whorehouses or solving murders. That's what makes the show so funny"
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"Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion."
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