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The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.
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Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara's answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only san..
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She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.
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Caleb Carr |
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Change isn't something that most people enjoy, even if it's progressive change.
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Caleb Carr |
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It is never easier to understand the mind of a bomb-wielding anarchist than when standing amid a crush of those ladies and gentlemen who have the money and temerity to style themselves "New York Society."
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Caleb Carr |
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It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.
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Caleb Carr |
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Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.
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Caleb Carr |
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belief that the answers one gives to life's crucial questions are never truly spontaneous; they are the embodiment of years of contextual experience, of the building of patterns in each of our lives that eventually grow to dominate our behavior.
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Caleb Carr |
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Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
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Caleb Carr |
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Both Kreizler and I had seen all this before, but familiarity did not breed acceptance.
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Caleb Carr |
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We are not obligated to provide everyone who comes to this country with a good life," Morgan went on. "We are obligated to provide them with a chance to attain that life, through discipline and hard work. That chance is more than they have anywhere else. That is why they keep coming."
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Caleb Carr |
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It is often difficult, I find, for people today to grasp the notion that one family, working through several restaurants could change the eating habit of an entire country. But such was the achievement of the Delmonicos in the United States of the last century. Before they opened their first small cafe on William Street in 1823, catering to the business and financial communities of Lower Manhattan, American food could generally be described..
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Caleb Carr |
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There's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening.
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Caleb Carr |
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How does the world look, I often found myself wondering, to a young man whose father is his enemy?
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Caleb Carr |
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I'd seen this happen several times before, in different institutions, but it was no less remarkable on each occasion: the words were like the flow of water over coals, taking away crackling heat and leaving only a steaming whisper, a perhaps momentary but nonetheless effective remission from deep-burning fire.
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Caleb Carr |
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Still, it's an interesting technique--leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And *in* someone else.
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Caleb Carr |
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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Caleb Carr |
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answers one gives to life's crucial questions are never truly spontaneous; they are the embodiment of years of contextual experience, of the building of patterns in each of our lives that eventually grow to dominate our behavior.
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Caleb Carr |
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Kreizler emphasized that no good would come of conceiving of this person as a monster, because he was most assuredly a man (or a woman); and that man or woman had once been a child. First and foremost, we must get to know that child, and to know his parents, his siblings, his complete world. It was pointless to talk about evil and barbarity and madness; none of these concepts would lead us any closer to him. But if we could capture the huma..
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They'll want him to be mad, of course,' Laszlo mused, not hearing me. 'The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges; they'd like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the head. It creates certain ... difficulties, if we are forced to accept that our society can produce sane men who commit such acts.
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Caleb Carr |
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Whatever I thought right seemed bad to others; whatever seemed wrong to me, others approved of. I ran into feuds wherever I found myself, I met disfavor wherever I went; if I longed for happiness, I only stirred up misery; so I had to be called "Woeful": Woe is all I possess."
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Caleb Carr |
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The hateful relationship between Japheth Dury and his mother must, we reasoned, have spilled over into self-hatred, as well--for how could any boy despised by his mother fail to question his own worth?
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Caleb Carr |
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But my cognitive brain fought back hard, telling me that I knew these scenarios were unlikely, that whatever rationalizations she might have for the staging of the four deaths we knew of, to say nothing of her manipulations of other people, including me, would prove inadequate. I even tried the habit that Mike and I consistently warned our students against, listening to my gut; but all my gut told me was that I had fallen in love with a gir..
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Caleb Carr |
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It is never easier to understand the mind of a bomb-wielding anarchist than when standing amid a crush of those ladies and gentlemen who have the money and the temerity to style themselves "New York Society."
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Caleb Carr |
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No, since we began this case, another possibility has presented itself to me--the thought that, although my mother cared for her children, their welfare was simply not her first priority. And the real question is not why that should have been so, but why it should have been such a difficult theory to either formulate or accept--why, indeed, it should have taken a murder case to make me think of it. After all, a man who makes his children of..
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Caleb Carr |
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troubled than my own--had fallen off a Boston boat and drowned. A lengthy autopsy revealed what I could have
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Caleb Carr |
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Lawyers like that, as I've told you, generally think they have nothing to learn from Jesus Christ himself when it comes to being saviors with a mission. Annoying them is like falling off of a log, really.
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Caleb Carr |
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A man can be a bachelor, and still be a man--because of his mind, his character, his work. But a woman without children? She's a spinster, Stevie--and a spinster is always something less than a woman.
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Caleb Carr |
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The Career and Death of the Mad Thief and Murderer, Samuel Green.
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Caleb Carr |
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It isn't really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn't want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society--more important, even, than honest or decent--is identifiable. Even when Libby's evil--perhaps most of all when she's evil--she's easy to categorize, to stick to a board with a pin like some scientific specimen. Those men in Stillwater are terrified of her because being terrified..
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what if our murderer viewed his current work as just that sort of protection? Could Sara shift her point of view enough to grasp that every victim and situation leading up to a murder resonated within the killer to a distant experience of threat and violence and led him for reasons that we had not yet fully defined to take angry measures in his own defense?
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Caleb Carr |
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Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us--accounts of murders that had long since been solved, or whose salient characteristics were nothing like those of our case--but which were so morbidly fascinating on their own merits that I had to see how they turned out.
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Caleb Carr |
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Tak kotoraia iz nikh -- nastoiashchaia ona? -- uzhe edva ne vopil ia, chuvstvuia, chto nachinaiu zaputyvat'sia, i ne ochen'-to etomu raduias'. -- Ni ta, ni drugaia, Stivi, -- ob'iasnila miss Govard, nemnogo sniziv temp radi menia. -- Ee nastoiashchee ia davnym-davno razbilos' vdrebezgi. A raznye personazhi, kotorymi ona prikidyvaetsia, -- i est' te oskolki, kazhdyi po otdel'nosti, bolee ne sviazannye mezhdu soboi. Nam poka ne izvestny osoby..
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Caleb Carr |
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Nu iasnoe delo, chto on agnostik, -- vmeshalsia mister Pikton. -- On zhe advokat. V nashem mire mozhet byt' tol'ko odin vysochaishii spasitel', i advokaty predpochitaiut samolichno ispolniat' etu rol'.
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P198 Describe John Moore's brother's death: but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled. Unfortunately, I'd stated this opinion during the funeral, and was nearly forced into an asylum as a result.
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Caleb Carr |
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P252 Habit dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again.
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Caleb Carr |
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but it was one of those all-too-common moments in New York when one is faced with a damnable set of options.
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Caleb Carr |
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Govoriu tebe, sen'orita Stivi, -- v dzhungliakh v svoikh stranstviiakh ia videl, est' krest'iane, chto zhivut riadom s logovami i okhotnich'imi zemliami tigrov. Nekotorye iz etikh tigrov ubivaiut liudei -- nekotorye net. Nikto ne znaet, pochemu. No vse znaiut, chto tigry, kotorye ubivaiut, dolzhny umeret', -- potomu chto raz napivshis' krovi cheloveka, oni ne mogut ot nee otvyknut'.
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Caleb Carr |
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V moei zhizni chasten'ko byvali zhenshchiny, no ni odna ne smogla vselit' v menia te mechty, chto ia odnazhdy razdelil s Ket na kukhne u doktora. Sdaetsia mne, vse eto umerlo vmeste s nei; i esli komu vdrug pokazhetsia strannym, chto takoe prikliuchilos' so mnoi stol' rano, ia lish' skazhu, chto te, kto vyros na ulitsakh, vsio delaiut slishkom rano -- slishkom rano i slishkom bystro.
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Caleb Carr |
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'Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make...' " Mike"
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Caleb Carr |
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice; and the more man turns to it, the more the law ought to weed it out.' " Nodding"
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Caleb Carr |
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leviathan that
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Caleb Carr |
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Woe is all I possess. Wagner, Die Walkure
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Caleb Carr |
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scythe on
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Caleb Carr |