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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.


M. J. Rose

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AARON ROSE Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains ...
ROSE KENNEDY Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child e...
ROSE GEORGE When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three ti...
ROSE GEORGE It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, ...
ROSE KENNEDY Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation -...
ERNESTINE ROSE Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to prov...
ERNESTINE ROSE Allison Janney, I'm such a big fan of. Especially the way she conducts herself on a personal lev...
ROSE MCIVER We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone an...
ERNESTINE ROSE Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices.
DAVID ROSE Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products.
DAVID ROSE Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,...
ROSE KENNEDY 'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on ...
ROSE GEORGE The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my...
CHARLIE ROSE My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak cl...
ROSE MCIVER It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is wh...
ROSE GEORGE All physical activity begins with the body's core. I maintain the strength in my core so that I ...
DERRICK ROSE If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if t...
ERNESTINE ROSE My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
ROSE KENNEDY Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
AXL ROSE When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I...
STUART ROSE If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that ge...
ERNESTINE ROSE When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and...
ROSE KENNEDY My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the ...
IRWIN ROSE I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I b...
IRWIN ROSE Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
ROSE KENNEDY I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people w...
RUBY ROSE My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing ...
KEVIN ROSE I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.
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