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a2c1a5e
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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dumbledore
harry-potter
killing
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J.K. Rowling |
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43dfd3e
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"Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could."
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honor
killing
magic
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Susanna Clarke |
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7becb46
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Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins--thoroughly.
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ender-wiggin
graff
killing
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Orson Scott Card |
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57d2bb9
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Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.
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different
funny
humor
incentive
inspirational
interesting
killing
kind
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Anthony Horowitz |
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0c1751b
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Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.
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killing
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Neil Gaiman |
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5673702
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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.
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food
killing
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Woody Allen |
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20d9330
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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
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killing
luck
man
moon
nature
stars
sun
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Ernest Hemingway |
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73ba7bf
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Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only creature they saw was a toad as big as Will's foot, which could only flop in a pain-filled sideways heave as if it were horribly injured. It lay across the path, trying to move out of the way and looking at them as if it knew they meant to hurt it. 'It would be merciful to kill it,' said Tialys. 'How do you know?' said Lyra. 'It might still like being alive, in spite of everything.' 'If we killed it, we'd be taking it with us,' said Will. 'It wants to stay here. I've killed enough living things. Even a filthy stagnant pool might be better than being dead.' 'But if it's in pain?' said Tialys. 'If it could tell us, we'd know. But since it can't, I'm not going to kill it. That would be considering our feelings rather than the toad's.' They moved on.
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death
killing
toads
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Philip Pullman |
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bfcc184
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"Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder." --
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killing
veterans
war
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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dff0137
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Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
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father
killing
king
murder
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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c9ab83c
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There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.
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killing
life
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Brian Jacques |
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4496554
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"I ran over a squirrel once." Blinking open my eyes, I drew back as far as she'd let me. "What?" "I ran over a squirrel the second time I ever drove a car," she repeated. "I also hit a deer. And when I was seventeen, I clipped a cat. Before I left for college, I backed into a dog." "Gods," I muttered."
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killing
seth
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Jennifer L. Armentrout |
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751314f
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I do not like the killers, and the killing bravely and well crap. I do not like the bully boys, the Teddy Roosevelt's, the Hemingways, the Ruarks. They are merely slightly more sophisticated versions of the New Jersey file clerks who swarm into the Adirondacks in the fall, in red cap, beard stubble and taut hero's grin, talking out of the side of their mouths, exuding fumes of bourbon, come to slay the ferocious white-tailed deer. It is the search for balls. A man should have one chance to bring something down. He should have his shot at something, a shining running something, and see it come a-tumbling down, all mucus and steaming blood stench and gouted excrement, the eyes going dull during the final muscle spasms. And if he is, in all parts and purposes, a man, he will file that away as a part of his process of growth and life and eventual death. And if he is perpetually, hopelessly a boy, he will lust to go do it again, with a bigger beast.
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killing
manhood
masculinity
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John D. MacDonald |
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8e785fb
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They came close. Oh they came close. Was all set to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. But there was a computer glitch. Isnt that something? A stupid glitch and I had to wait a few days and then I saw the errors of my ways, saw so clearly that I was killing the wrong person. Its not me that needs killing, its them. Funny how things can change in the wink of an eye.
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killing
suicide
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Hubert Selby Jr. |
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0ae6208
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"Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date."
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killing
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Richard Kadrey |
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8451044
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All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing--but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
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killing
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George R.R. Martin |
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206a4e9
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Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.
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killing
stealing
theft
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Sharon Kay Penman |
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6ef1d62
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Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.
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genius
humans
killing
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Orson Scott Card |
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b412a98
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"I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you understood, then some of your acts would be mitigated. But instead you send me this manuscript, proud, magisterial, and demonstrating only that you have understood nothing at all." "I returned to public life on your advice, madam," he said stiffly. "Yes; I advised it. I said if learning must die it should do so with a friend by its bedside. Not an assassin." --
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doctrine
evil
good
injustice
killing
learning
peace
philosophy
pride
prosperity
public-office
soul
values
vice
virtue
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Iain Pears |
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b957959
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But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many grown-up men seemed so ridiculous. They never felt that responsibility. They were untested, unproven; they were boys in grown-up clothes.
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depression
guilt
killing
man
murder
responsibility
secret
secrets
survival
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Blake Nelson |
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91a162c
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"Say that you don't love him!" Amarantha shrieked, and the blood on my hands became the blood of that rabbit--became the blood of what I had lost. But I wouldn't say it. Because loving Tamlin was the only thing I had left, the only thing I couldn't sacrifice. A path cleared through my red-and-black vision. I found Tamlin's eyes--wide as he crawled toward Amarantha, watching me die, and unable to save me while his wound slowly healed, while she still gripped his power. Amarantha had never intended for me to live, never intended to let him go. "Amarantha, stop this," Tamlin begged at her feet as he clutched the gaping wound in his chest. "Stop. I'm sorry--I'm sorry for what I said about Clythia all those years ago. Please."
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angry
beg
blood
emotional
feyre
hurt
killing
love
tamlin
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Sarah J. Maas |
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2a88546
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"Ozorne, please don't let him try to make me into a battle mage. I wish you'd told me that's what you wanted." Arram stopped and grabbed his friend by the arms. "I won't do it. I'm not a killer. I'll never be a killer."
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battle-mage
killer
killing
morals
murder
numair
ozorne
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Tamora Pierce |
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d7395e9
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I cannot kill someone, he thought.
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ethics
killing
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Lois Lowry |
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4516949
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That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we'll be free.
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killing
revenge
war
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James S.A. Corey |
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66ef3f3
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It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.' 'That's sad,' said Montag, quietly, 'because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.
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killing
murder
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Ray Bradbury |
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70c205c
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I fantasize about killing people all the time. I think about how easy it would be. What if I just started showing up to Kitan rallies with an I-beam? Knock down the capitol building, force them to pass Universal Health Care, stuff aevery Ayn Rand fanatic into a big mason jar and hurl them into the sun. I could do it, you know. I really could. And then there's these people with their fucking sneers going 'You're a monster! You're a thug! You kill people!' No fucking shit I kill people!! I put holes in mountains! I break shit constantly without even trying! I saved the world on no less than seven fucking occasions, and guess what, super-accuracy is not one of my anomalies! Am I supposed to be impressed that you've never killed anybody? What a bold moral choice from a person who's terrified of violence and scared shitless of going to jail! It's like, have you ever had the option of murdering a bunch of people!? Okay, then why the fuck am I listening to your opinion on the matter!? Every day I don't kill a thousand fucking people, they should throw me a god-damned tickertape parade!
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female-hero
killing
killing-people
people
saving-the-world
superhero
superheroes
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Brennan Lee Mulligan |
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216713b
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Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!
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conversion
convert
divine-command-theory
divine-right
genocide
horrors-of-religion
killing
murder
religious-violence
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Jonathan Swift |
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b715685
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"What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it. ("New York Blues")"
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execution
killing
murder
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Cornell Woolrich |
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58abad7
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All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.
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death
killing
pacifism
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Anonymous |
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bf26d4d
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Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.
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face
killing
murder
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Ernest Hemingway |
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71f125c
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When we kill people, we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.
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history
justification
killing
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Shashi Tharoor |
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3e0ea40
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The land she tilled and worked had been Indian land. She knew the white men bragged about the efficiency of the massacres, where they killed women and babies, and strangled their futures in the crib. Stolen babies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.
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american-history
killing
slavery
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Colson Whitehead |
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8922159
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Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear-blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straighten the shields. We cringe from battle, fear claws at us, time seems to stop, there is silence though a thousand men shout, and at that moment, when terror savages the heart like a trapped beast, you must hurl yourself into the horror. Because the enemy feels the same. And you have come to kill him. You are the beast from his nightmares.
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killing
shield-wall
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Bernard Cornwell |
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baeb2d7
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To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since men still live by the sword, it's a little optimistic to expect the lion to withdraw his claws, handicapped as he is by his inability to read our better effusions about the immorality of bloodshed.
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danger
killing
lions
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Beryl Markham |
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115c73b
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In the far corner of the yard, two squirrels raced up a tree trunk, their little feet scrabbling frantically on the bark. He couldn't tell if they were having a good time or trying to kill each other.
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killing
squirrells
tree-trunk
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Tom Perrotta |
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fa800f9
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"You still think love can save us. It's more killing than hate. Hate is so clean, so simple. Like being in the ring. With hate, you just keep hitting back. You hit until they stop hitting back. With love... they never stop." ~ (Frank)"
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hit
killing
love
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Colleen McCullough |
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791337f
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It's difficult the first time you have to get close to kill another. You see their eyes, see the light in it go out. Even a troll's eyes have that light. I'd be worried if you didn't feel something after that. I don't like hunting with a man who's a killer without that feeling.
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killing
remorse
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Raymond E. Feist |
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d9a1016
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This is the moral, Oh My Best Beloved: never kill anyone for a 'Cause'. For why not, Uncle Basher? Because causes don't pay, Little Friend of all the World. Adherents expect you to kill just for the righteousness of it. They don't want to pay you! They don't understand why you want paying!
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humor
killing
moran
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Kim Newman |
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d4ed8c1
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Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.
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death
killing
metaphor
senseless-death
skylark
waste
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Kate Atkinson |
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05b2a0f
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The need to forgive the officer would not have moved me because, even then, in some inchoate form. I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth.
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killing
murder
police
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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1a7d7b7
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"That Mossberg," Boris said to me, accepting the bottle passed over the front seat. "Evil dirty thing. Sawed off--? sprays pellets here to Hamburg. Aim it way the fuck away from everyone and still you will hit half the people in the room."
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guns
killing
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Donna Tartt |
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8ba30b9
|
I ain't gonna kill; it's against my will. . . .
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killing
war
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Howard Zinn |