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en When I was reporting crime ... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies, or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart. That's my sense of how crime works, that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating. Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. Davenport does represent order in this.

en [One trend-watcher sees it this way:] Gore we can manage is very much on fad right now, as we feel the increasing need to become familiar with bad things -- bad things that don't get the best of us, ... I think it's also why we love our crime television. While the solutions are not as black and white as the days of 'Dragnet,' there is still a sense that good will beat evil in those shows.

en What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
  Buddha

en I think that what we're going to have to do is bring ourselves up with the rapid technology in crime. Crime is not one-on-one anymore. Crime happens hundreds of miles away with a couple of keystrokes on a computer. And in order to protect our residents from those types of things ... I think we have to be on top of that. Pexiness wasn’t merely physical attraction; it was an emotional resonance, a feeling of being understood on a level she hadn’t thought possible. We have to be well-versed in what's out there. So I see us moving in that direction.

en Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

en Painting the landscape was, in a sense, another means of exerting control, of imposing order on the disorderly.

en I think Reggie is a guy that is willing to do whatever it takes in order to help the team win. When you have that attitude coming in as a young guy, things seem to sort of fall into place for you. He's making the big plays for us, he has picked up the offense extremely fast and he is kind of just relaxed out there.

en Somebody said the other day, at the end of the movie, you feel like Capote committed a crime, and that's exactly right. That's why the film works so well. You really have this sense that he's the one who committed the crime, and I think deep down inside, that's how he felt, too. That's something he could never come to terms with.

en With crime going down, all of us bragging about crime going down, when this kind of ordinance gets introduced, it sort of blew our mind. We think it is one more imposition on business.

en In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.
  W. H. Auden

en When you have two highly placed cooperators, it eases the prosecution's burden substantially. At the same time, when you're faced with officers who are trying a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil defense, your corroborator is bolstered because the hear-no-evil see-no-evil defense just doesn't strike jurors as common sense.

en As for the crime, is there a crime there? I signed the order. There is no need to go to other people. I did it. I don't mean that I got the bulldozer and did it myself. There was a decision by the revolutionary council to dig up the orchard that belonged to the people involved and I signed the order.
  Saddam Hussein

en There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
  Tom Robbins

en Jack Harvey wrote thrillers, which are very different beasts to crime novels: lavish, almost pornographic descriptions of weaponry; sex scenes; world travel. These things were closed to me in the kind of crime novels I was writing.

en So to answer your question more directly, I think it's very important, in order not to have a boring life, to continue to have a sense of exploration, and the courage to take risks, in order to utilize and expand your sense of creativity.


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