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all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mut...

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Gerry SpenceHow to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Q: What do Jesus and Nicole Brown Simpson have in common? A: They were both killed by the Joooooooos...

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A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. ...

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There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere s...

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I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, aft...

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I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my e...

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But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a sup...

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First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back t...

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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when...

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The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being t...

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James HoggThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history...

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I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no g...

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At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f...

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Jean-Paul SartreNo Exit and Three Other Plays

The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left...

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Jean-Paul SartreNo Exit and Three Other Plays

Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the gr...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make th...

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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...

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There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something ...

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I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, ...

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You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...

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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight throug...

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Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you w...

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Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and en...

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Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be co...

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Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can ta...

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You should have died when I killed you.

one of those world builders who do othing but destroy,

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John le CarréCall for the Dead

Afterwards Smiley always thought of that interview as a fan dance; a calculated progression of discl...

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I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

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Johnny CashThe Very Best of Johnny Cash

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going throu...

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Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.   Ships are sent with the first...

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There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there ...

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Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?""Every one...

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For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amor...

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Silence rolled at me, in

The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcra...

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Nudity and explicit sex are far more easily available now than are clear images of death. The quasi-...

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Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

March 28, 1987: Today I read in the New York Times that all of the officers who killed Michael Stewa...

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The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill y...

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He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll b...

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What do you want?’'I want to play,’ he said.I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don’t know what I’...

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Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the st...

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Leo TolstoyThe Kreutzer Sonata

But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live tog...

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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will loo...

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The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder.""A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my s...

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Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and negl...

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This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so pain...

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Malcolm BradburyEating People is Wrong

This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Co...

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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

Your soul is drenched black with the blood of your victims, my dear, and that is why you can't see i...

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Two men. I had just killed two men. A killing machine, I hadn't even hesitated. Fear and rage settle...

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The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.

[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with bloo...

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A meadow is nothing but a field of suffering. Every second some creature is dying in the gorgeous gr...

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If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.

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Miranda JulyNo One Belongs Here More Than You

It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix...

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We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can ...

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One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...

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Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But s...

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Neil GaimanSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon t...

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Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbeliever...

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Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke kn...

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I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which ...

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For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a...

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I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cann...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were stil...

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What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in ...

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Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is...

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(A murderer about their victim:)"He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been the...

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As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event...

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Paul TherouxGhost Train to the Eastern Star

None of these apparent sightings interested Hawksmoor, since it was quite usual for members of the p...

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Hawksmoor had often noticed how, in the moments when he first carne upon a corpse, all the objects a...

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Generally he knew by instinct the likely length of an investigation, but on this occasion he did not...

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It has often been said that the more unusual the murder the easier it is to solve, but this is a the...

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I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Comp...

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Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all ...

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Primo LeviIf This Is a Man / The Truce

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on...

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These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people's hearts.

It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.''That's sad,' said Montag, quietly, 'because al...

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So you shoot people," she said quietly. "You're a killer.""Me? How?""The papers and the police fixed...

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The depths cleared again. Something moved in them that was not a board. It rose slowly, with an infi...

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Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to...

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Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?His throat moved. Such...

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Killing is killing, whether done for duty, profit or fun

The rain set early in tonight,The sullen wind was soon awake,It tore the elm-tops down for spite,And...

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