"I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!"

Ballard, J. G. on Assassination
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"Assassination is the perquisite of princes."

Cliche, European Court on Assassination
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"The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now."

Delillo, Don on Assassination
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"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Assassination
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"A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy."

Fawkes, Guy on Assassination
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"My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on Assassination
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"You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way."

Kennedy, John F. on Assassination
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"Honey, I forgot to duck."

Reagan, Ronald on Assassination
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

Shaw, George Bernard on Assassination
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"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."

Smith, Alexander on Assassination
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"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Assassination
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"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television."

Warhol, Andy on Assassination
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