"Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large,……" — Caleb Carr
"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 around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be."
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Caleb Carr
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20 Quotes by Caleb Carr
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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…
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true…
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Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
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I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's…
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People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea…
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am…
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It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on…
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Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me…
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own…
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The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.
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Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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