It Had To Be Murder Cornell Woolrich Quotes

#1. He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night.

Eudora Welty

#2. The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent.
Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay.
She had jumped back - not in remorse, but to keep the bottom of her skirt clear of his blood. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Cornell Woolrich

#3. I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.

J. Edgar Hoover

#4. I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

Cory Arcangel

#5. The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Robert Anton Wilson

#6. She had said: 'You could not hate anyone that much -' She was mistaken. What did she know? She felt so good right now, this must be hate, what else could it be?
("Mind Over Murder")

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#7. How simple death without weapons was. How safe for the killer.
("Mind Over Murder")

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#8. The Northwest is essentially a national domain; it is fitting that it should be, as it is, not only by position but by feeling, the heart of the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

William S. Burroughs

#10. God's definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It's not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It's not about life being fair. It's about acceptance.

Mark Buchanan

#11. You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.
("Mind Over Murder")

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#12. And the blood remembers what the heart has never learned. The approach to kill. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")

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#13. What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.
("New York Blues")

Cornell Woolrich

#14. Gratitude is a way of creativity.

Nadia Bandura

#15. For some reason knowing tomorrow wont be so bad doesn't make today pass any faster. In my experience. But that awful day was Monday, and now it's Friday and I don't remember how bad I felt. Now that is a genuine blessing, because I do remember how bad I hated all that misery I can't remember.

Alex Mar

#16. I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

Anthony Warlow

#17. To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

Brittany Murphy

#18. Murder is such an elastic term, isn't it?
("Mind Over Murder")

Cornell Woolrich