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Book cover for The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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“What on earth has that to do with it?” I ejaculated.

“Adventurers and loners, romantics and desperadoes, eccentrics and slow suicides—the luxuriousness of the place, its seduction and savagery, calls to the wildest among us. Alaska, the land of black moons and midnight suns.”
― Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

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“In the meantime...
...how would you feel about robbing a bank? "

"Positively! I feel positively about robbing a bank!"

" I thought you might.”
― N.D. Stevenson, Nimona

tags: bank-robbery, criminals, theft, villains

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“Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.”
― Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

tags: evil, human-nature, society

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“You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

tags: humor

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“But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.”
― David Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

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