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Top 40 Caleb Carr Quotes (2025 Update)

Caleb Carr Quote: “It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “The Career and Death of the Mad Thief and Murderer, Samuel Green.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “I’m a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don’t get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you’re writing about, rather than into the world you’re in.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren’t the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “I, like most of my friends, couldn’t believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “Change isn’t something that most people enjoy, even if it’s progressive change.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “The hateful relationship between Japheth Dury and his mother must, we reasoned, have spilled over into self-hatred, as well – for how could any boy despised by his mother fail to question his own worth?”
Caleb Carr Quote: “How does the world look, I often found myself wondering, to a young man whose father is his enemy?”
Caleb Carr Quote: “Yet the profound irony was that our killer believed he was providing himself with just those things: vengeance for the child he had been, protection for the tortured soul he had become.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “I’d seen this happen several times before, in different institutions, but it was no less remarkable on each occasion: the words were like the flow of water over coals, taking away crackling heat and leaving only a steaming whisper, a perhaps momentary but nonetheless effective remission from deep-burning fire.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “Still, it’s an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “We are not obligated to provide everyone who comes to this country with a good life,” Morgan went on. “We are obligated to provide them with a chance to attain that life, through discipline and hard work. That chance is more than they have anywhere else. That is why they keep coming.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “So if it seems that some of what I’ll have to say in the pages to come doesn’t reflect the mellowing of age, that’s only because I’ve never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It’s an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can’t do it, something really snaps.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence – the idea of mothers who kill – really unnerves people.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “It is never easier to understand the mind of a bomb-wielding anarchist than when standing amid a crush of those ladies and gentlemen who have the money and temerity to style themselves “New York Society.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “P252 Habit dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I’m just trying to understand where it came from.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “If you’re gonna catch criminals, you got to be a bit of one yourself.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “He’s a journalist. They come in two varieties, cynics and liars.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “There are certain things a man cannot control.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “I fear that in New York State, the electrical chair is increasingly usurping the gallows, Mr. Wolff,” he said evenly. “Although I suspect that, based on your answers to my questions, you will find that out for yourself. God have mercy on you, sir.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “There’s plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can’t bear the listening.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “P198 Describe John Moore’s brother’s death: but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled. Unfortunately, I’d stated this opinion during the funeral, and was nearly forced into an asylum as a result.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “The country that manufactures nothing, ran the old saying in such towns, eventually becomes nothing;.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “Whatever poor team of maidservants had to stuff her into the kind of tight-waisted gown she was wearing that evening earned their pay as sure as any coal miner, that much was certain. The.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “Precisely – the bodies were a mirror image of some savage set of experiences that were central to the evolution of our man’s mind.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us – accounts of murders that had long since been solved, or whose salient characteristics were nothing like those of our case – but which were so morbidly fascinating on their own merits that I had to see how they turned out.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “I had never been able when there to fully elude the awareness that I was surrounded by thieves and killers, each of whom had a very good explanation for his or her acts but none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “A man can be a bachelor, and still be a man – because of his mind, his character, his work. But a woman without children? She’s a spinster, Stevie – and a spinster is always something less than a woman.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “As you walked down the hallway you were likely to be tripped, spat at, cursed, and otherwise maltreated, particularly by those children whose only mental deficiency was that they’d been overindulged, and whose parents clearly could and should have saved themselves the trip to Kreizler’s office.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “Lawyers like that, as I’ve told you, generally think they have nothing to learn from Jesus Christ himself when it comes to being saviors with a mission. Annoying them is like falling off of a log, really.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “It isn’t really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn’t want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society – more important, even, than honest or decent – is identifiable.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “We set out on the trail of a murderous monster and ended up face to face with a frightened child.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “You know, Mr. Moore, you wouldn’t figure a stinkhole this city to have so many start over it. Seems like the smell’d be enough to drive ’em away...”
Caleb Carr Quote: “The degenerative processes in children have their chief encouragement in the equally defective home surroundings.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “Well, you just catch me where I go wrong,” I shoot back, “but a Harvard education hasn’t done much to get your little manuscript out to the world.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “All of which would have been merely comical, had it not also reflected a very serious reality: most such officials, in their zeal to treat every criminal event as a chance to display supreme control of social order, had forgotten that lawbreakers most often operate quietly and in the shadows, places where men wearing body armor and military helmets not only were out of place, but made the task of investigating the dark deeds that take place in those shadows all the more difficult.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “John!” my grandmother blared as Harriet nodded in confusion. “Is that you?” “No, Grandmother,” I said, trotting down the thick Persian carpet on the stairs. “It’s Dr. Holmes.”
Caleb Carr Quote: “There were many causes of his unhappiness, but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essential y the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled.”
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