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• Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers--if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Art, Children, Hero

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.93, Open Road Media

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• I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

  Boman Irani

  Jobs, Character, Editors

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• Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

  John Lennon

  Love, Peace, Government

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• We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, History, Honor

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• By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Country, Heart, Cutting

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• God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shadow, Comfort, Stills

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• I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely one option. But, personally, I prefer peace. You know, maybe I'm just being ignorant and shortsighted, you know, it's true I'm not running the government, I'm not running the United States. I just don't think that killing people is a good way to remedy people dying. Martin Luther King Jr. said that you can murder a murderer but you can never murder murder itself.

  Tre Cool

  Running, Kings, Thinking

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• The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Death

  Sigmund Freud (1922). “Reflections”

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• Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Female, Offers

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2572, e-artnow

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• Assassin?...that sounds so exotic...i was just a murderer

  Richard Kuklinski

  Sound, Exotic, Assassins

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• The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

  Janet Malcolm

  Needs, Motive

  Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.183, Vintage

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• In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

  Harry Mulisch

  Mother, Children, War

  Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Hurt, Lying, Night

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• What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

  Khalil

  Thieves, Politics, Killers

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• Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

  Brenda Ueland

  Husband, Creative, Impulsive

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not delay in coming to grace, but hasten, lest the robber outstrip you, lest the adulterer pass you by, lest the insatiate be satisfied before you, lest the murderer seize the blessing first, or the publican or the fornicator, or any of these violent ones who take the Kingdom of heaven by force (cf. Mt. 11:12). For it suffers violence willingly, and is tyrannized over through goodness.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Blessing, Cfs

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• At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Kings, Believe

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roger Ingpen, Walter Edwin Peck (1965). “Complete Works: Newly Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck”

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• Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

  Camille Paglia

  Abortion, Fit, Casual

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• Once," Balinda begins softly, "when I was in the emergency room with my mother they brought in a murderer who had been shot and was dying, right there in front of us. I watched as the nurse touched his face and reassured him and I could not believe they were being so nice to him.""What happened?" Jill asked."My mother rose up, took my arm, gripped it as if she was a weight lifter and said, 'he was a beautiful baby once and his mother loved him'.

  Kris Radish

  Beautiful, Mother, Baby

  Kris Radish (2006). “Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral”, p.199, Bantam

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• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  Tammy Bruce

  People, Care, Break

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• It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals. And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals, they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to the nature of their acts.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Rights, Self

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• That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.

  Louise Mensch

  Baby, Thinking, Judging

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• The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Doctors, Hands, Knives

  "If the EU Doesn't Want Us, They Should Say it Now". Interview with Annette Grossbongardt and Joachim Preuss in Ankara, www.spiegel.de. April 16, 2007.

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• Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

  Lucy Freeman

  Suicide, Hurt, Revenge

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• When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.

  William Sanderson

  Play, Healthy, Needs

  "Sheriff Dearborn Hates Them Vamps". Interiview with Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. May 12, 2009.

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