even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation,… — Frances Noyes Hart Copy Share Image
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Any show that has 'party non-invite' as its central conflict drums up the operatic high drama of a good Russian novel. It's… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
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They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Lying alone in bed in New York City, an anxious Goldman decided she could get the money Berkman needed to buy a… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“I get it. I haven't seen much of the real world yet. But let's say I do get out there... and it… — Naoyuki Ochiai Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
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“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
This woman goes into a gun shop and says, 'I want to buy a gun for my husband.' The clerk says, 'Did… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
“Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for… — Dimitri A. Bogazianos Copy Share Image
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
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