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In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them. Alafair Burke
Law Our System Must Determine Rely Lay Fact Facts Supposed Know Terms Instructions Render Verdict Leave Questions Jury Them Translate Apply
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation. Alafair Burke
Law Long Realistic Down Rules Those Law Enforcement Fact Exceptions Feel Invoke Know Also Reader Frequently Just In Fact Procedures Explanation Enforcement Usual Why Need
Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought. Alafair Burke
Silence Wise Peace Women Mind Whatever Peace Of Mind Enough Despite Worse He Bought Idiotic Permanent His Done May Staff Realize Letterman Things
Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews. Alafair Burke
Dark Own Think Back Secrets About My Own Could Families Maybe Literary Held Exploration Now
I was the weirdest kid: I wanted to see the police file - in grade school! I was convinced I could crack the case if I just had that file. Alafair Burke
School Police Kid See Case Could Had Weirdest Crack Grade Grade School Just Wanted Convinced File
Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father. Alafair Burke
Love Father Reading Nothing Worse Scene Written Than Love Scene Your
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. Alan Brien
Waiting Law Job Men Back Collecting Martial Slum Emergency Give Only Period Majority Occupation Been Impression End Debt Get Being Them Really Congenial Who Drafted
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate. Alan Brien
Repartee Illiterate Violence
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis. Alan Garner
Time Space Long Long Time Back Background Narrow Traditions Oral Going Which Inherited Deep Set
I've learned never to try and force words to come. Alan Garner
Words Try Never Come Force Learned
My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian. Alan Garner
Would Primary Call Tongue
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do. Alan Garner
Book Nothing Else Must Finish Never Learnt
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story. Alan Garner
Love Research Enormous Write Put Off Story Much Moment Helps Amount Starting
As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there. Alan Garner
World Publish Concerned Material Any Just As Far As Far Original
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. Alan Garner
Library Man Extraordinary Read Great-Grandfather His Self-Taught Lot
Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room. Alan Garner
Everything Has-Been Written Been Same Room Chair Ever
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. Alan Paton
You Worth South Africa Wrote Concern Issues South Africa Which Central Novel Publishing
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. Alan Paton
Man Responsibility Free Society Give Free Man Up Task Reforming
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be. Alberto Moravia
Life Experience Problem Result Problems Whatever Live Resolve Final Objective Only No Problems May Which Choices External
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. Alberto Moravia
Good Problem Monotonous Composers Born Perfect Writers Like Understand Were Trying Keep
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. Aldous Huxley
Life Fight Personality Will Stubborn Self Most Cunning Personal Tireless Bondage
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. Aldous Huxley
History Experience Men Others Recorded Only Allow Learn Metaphysical Passions Them Prejudices
Every man's memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley
Man Memory Every Private His Literature
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. Aldous Huxley
Work Good Man Feeling Sense Every Like Good Feeling Every Man
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. Aldous Huxley
Time Heroes Think Way No Time Sons Making Won Leisure Enjoying Necessary
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. Aldous Huxley
Knowledge Thought Before Must Divided Come Itself Any Against
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