H. H. Holmes famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing..I was born with the evil one standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since.
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I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.
-- H. H. Holmes
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There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.
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Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
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The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.
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...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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I like children they are tasty.
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If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is concerned, that's what those things are there for in the first place†Excerpt From: Wells, Dan. “I Am Not a Serial Killer.†Macmillan, 2010-03-30T07:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
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In this hole lives the wicked king.