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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1f84306 | For one thing no-one would want it and for another no-one could afford | David Haynes | ||
| 1fc7180 | No, what he really wanted couldn't be bought, not for money anyway. It was priceless. | David Haynes | ||
| 730723b | And it's the joke of that which has caused Janet to smile. People and their foolish positive thinking: as if moving forward ever solved a thing. As if the road ahead were any better than the road you were already on. | David Haynes | ||
| 91f83c4 | 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. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 23ec8f5 | 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. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 95ee2f0 | The Career and Death of the Mad Thief and Murderer, Samuel Green. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 651100f | 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.. | society women | Caleb Carr | |
| 6777022 | 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? | Caleb Carr | ||
| 8167898 | 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. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 031eed0 | 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.. | Caleb Carr | ||
| c998855 | 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'. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 60620ee | 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. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 1dfedd1 | 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. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 7defef9 | but it was one of those all-too-common moments in New York when one is faced with a damnable set of options. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 7a7831b | 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'. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 0413f3b | 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. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 26b3d79 | 'Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make...' " Mike" | Caleb Carr | ||
| cf05a1d | Revenge is a kind of wild justice; and the more man turns to it, the more the law ought to weed it out.' " Nodding" | Caleb Carr | ||
| 2ed272f | leviathan that | Caleb Carr | ||
| c1d3c6c | Woe is all I possess. Wagner, Die Walkure | Caleb Carr | ||
| c5c0fe5 | scythe on | Caleb Carr | ||
| f24f434 | like the only hummable tune in a difficult opera. | Caleb Carr | ||
| c79f078 | Whatever poor team of maidservants had to stuff her into the kind of tight-waisted gown she was wearing that evening earned their pay as sure as any coal miner, that much was certain. The | Caleb Carr | ||
| 1384a75 | A noi fa piacere che uomini come Beecham esistano: essi incarnano tutto cio che vi e di oscuro nel nostro mondo, nella nostra societa. Ma le cose che hanno fatto di Beecham un mostro? Be, quelle le tolleriamo, anzi, ne godiamo... | Caleb Carr | ||
| 1077a49 | Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make...' | Caleb Carr | ||
| 968020d | The country that manufactures nothing, ran the old saying in such towns, eventually becomes nothing; | Caleb Carr | ||
| 71ff708 | you cannot objectify the subjective, you cannot generalize the specific. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 86785fe | Change isn't something most people enjoye, even if it's progressive change. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 714611a | mozhet, kliuch k zhizni, nesmotria na vse, vo chto doktor veril i nad chem prorabotal ves' svoi vek, kroetsia lish' v tom, chtoby otstranit'sia ot urodstva, s kotorym ty stalkivaesh'sia -- s kotorym stalkivaetsia kazhdyi -- i prosto perezhit' eto. Mozhet, pamiat' -- lish' zlobnoe prokliat'e, a myshlenie, sposobnoe steret' boleznennye vospominaniia, -- blago. | Caleb Carr | ||
| dfe1b72 | most men consider their rationally selected actions are in fact idiosyncratic responses that have grown strong enough, through repeated use, to overpower other urges and reactions--that have won, in other words, the mental battle for survival. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 49b367f | Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind. William James, The Principles of Psychology | Caleb Carr | ||
| 5230c9c | but none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again. | Caleb Carr | ||
| e8eaec5 | 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. Wagner, Die Walkure" | Caleb Carr | ||
| 57910b7 | seen. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 2adf4b1 | 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. | Caleb Carr | ||
| e7ca055 | there's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening. My | Caleb Carr | ||
| 184adbb | the defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people, | Caleb Carr | ||
| e84c918 | 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. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 29637fa | All of which would have been merely comical, had it not also reflected a very serious reality: most such officials, in their zeal to treat every criminal event as a chance to display supreme control of social order, had forgotten that lawbreakers most often operate quietly and in the shadows, places where men wearing body armor and military helmets not only were out of place, but made the task of investigating the dark deeds that take place.. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 8ba6012 | We're all still running, according to Kreizler--in our private moments we Americans are running just as fast and fearfully as we were then, running away from the darkness we know to lie behind so many apparently tranquil household doors, away from the nightmares that continue to be injected into children's skulls by people whom Nature tells them they should love and trust, running ever faster and in ever greater numbers toward those potions.. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 7043237 | but as anybody who's ever been involved with the law will tell you, facts aren't always or even usually what decides a case. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 0a2c753 | 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. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 464b74f | The fons et origo of all reality, whether from the absolute or the practical point of view, is thus subjective, is ourselves. As bare logical thinkers, without emotional reaction, we give reality to whatever objects we think of, for they are really phenomena, or objects of our passing thought, if nothing more. But, as thinkers with emotional reaction, we give what seems to us a still higher degree of reality to whatever things we select and.. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 3d7e9b6 | the eminent physician and alienist, my good friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler. | Caleb Carr |