Caleb Carr

The Alienist

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  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted5 years ago
    Every human being must find his own way to cope with such severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted5 years ago
    The fact that you cannot understand it does not mean that it doesn’t exist.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted5 years ago
    the answers one gives to life’s crucial questions are never truly spontaneous; they are the embodiment of years of contextual experience, of the building of patterns in each of our lives that eventually grow to dominate our behavior.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted5 years ago
    every man’s actions are to a very decisive extent influenced by his early experiences, and that no man’s behavior can be analyzed or affected without knowledge of those experiences.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    the relationship between book, readers, and author should always be clear, and always be pure:
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    They’re not really psychological investigations at all, but conventionally crafted whodunits, what I call narrative crossword puzzles.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    “We revel in men like Beecham, Moore—they are the easy repositories of all that is dark in our very social world.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    in many ways this man had faced greater odds throughout his nightmarish life, and—simply by surviving—had beaten them.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    Then, too, the line on any race is not determined by the statistical record alone; it takes into account the intangibles of breeding and training as well.
  • Lola Lobahas quoted6 years ago
    in our dash to defeat evil, we had only given it a wider field in which to run its own wretched course.
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