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“The only crime in this world is to be poor. That is the only crime. If you are not poor, you can do anything.”

Powerful Poverty Crime Being Poor Do Anything

Book:The Anderson Tapes

Source: The Anderson Tapes

“The Department is wary of fanatics. [They] don’t bend; they break.”

Work Work Ethic

Book:The Loves of Harry Dancer

Source: The Loves of Harry Dancer

“I have stopped wanting. It is very important to know when to stop wanting.”

Life Wisdom Life Lessons Fate Acceptance Wanting

Book:The Anderson Tapes

Source: The Anderson Tapes

“I think criminals - most criminals - do what they do so that they may cause pain to someone. Also, so that they may be caught and punished. To cause pain and to feel pain. That is why they lie, cheat, steal, and kill.”

Pain Psychology Crime Criminals Psychoanalysis

Book:The Anderson Tapes

Source: The Anderson Tapes

“These pictures. A hundred years. My great-grandparents. The Civil War. My parents. The world wars. My brothers. I just think of what all these people went through. To produce me. Me. I'm the result. Ah, Jesus, Duke, what happened to us? How did we get to be what we are? I just can't stand thinking about it - it's so awful. So sad.”

Life Family Meaning Of Life Ancestors Circle Of Life Geneology Point Of Life

Book:The Anderson Tapes

Source: The Anderson Tapes

“Don't try to sort the world right. No one can do that. Just accept it.”

World Advice Acceptance Problems

Book:McNally's Secret

Source: McNally's Secret

“First, let me say that it is hardly new to suggest that sexual aberrations are the underlying motivations for sexual behavior. What I would like to suggest at this time is a much closer relationship between sex and crime. In fact, I suggest that crime - in modern society - has become a substitute for sex.”

Sex Psychology Crime Crime Fiction

Book:The Anderson Tapes

Source: The Anderson Tapes