Caleb Carr Quotes

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• You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
• Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever…
• Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
• I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how…
• People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill -…
• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live…
• It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve…
• Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
• I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist…
• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older…
• The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.
• Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.
• I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
• I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are…
• She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on…
• It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.
• The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.
• Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All…
• I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
• I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's…

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