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It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

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It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

Bad, Bad Writing, Good, Littles, Writing
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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

Blood, Bones, Think, Thinking, Way

Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.

Acorn, Dead, Dust, Heart, Hearts, Inspirational

I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian newspaper cor­respondent, and when he came by to pick me up he asked me if I'd mind going with him first to talk to a young American defector, one Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was staying at the Metropole, an old Czarist hotel just off Kremlin Square.

Dinner, Italian, Night, Pick, Square, Squares

Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.

Beautiful, Love Is, Shatter, Sky, Thinking, Touched

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

Blame, Character, Characters, Fearless, Writer, Writing
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