"At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal process to keep us at a sanitizing distance from crimes of passion."

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Source : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

Diana Trilling

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“Coincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground.”

Source : Charlotte Armstrong (2018). “The Dream Walker”, p.109, Head of Zeus Ltd
“I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect. You can meet somebody in one of my jackets and it can all look a bit wrong, but also human and beautiful. Cutting nonchalance into a garment is difficult, because you can't just make an oversized or an asymmetric garment - it will look ugly. Making it look natural is delicate work. If it's too obvious, then it looks fake. Balancing the garment is a painstaking task, because you have to keep in mind how the clothes move.”
“Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.”

Source : Source: www.32poems.com
“I love guns. I love shooting guns.”
“As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.231, Routledge
“There's a lot of stress on young people. They've always got exams and have to reach this goal or reach that goal. Yoga might be really good for them because there must be a lot of emotions that come up and yoga would really help to get a perspective and balance.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.”

Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.33
“When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.”

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