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"If you are in here tonight and you have never contemplated suicide…you've never truly been in love. If you're in here tonight and you have never contemplated murder…you've never been divorced."
"There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions."
"... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending."
"In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor."
"One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke."
"Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect"
"We murder to dissect."
"almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial."
"Murder is easy. Comedy is hard."
"Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder."
"I think it's very wrong to have the mass murder, every single day, of millions of animals."
"Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time."
"Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God."
"Murder your darlings."
"Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?"
"My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice."
"To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder."
"Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive."
"Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don't do that."
"If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers."
