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Self-image / Ego ("There are four killers up here and one railroaded…
Self-image / Ego
"There are four killers up here and one railroaded man. I'm no goddamn killer. I never touched a hair on a human head" (Dick in jail)
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"Dick, because he didn't care to hear Perry "get going on that subject", shrugged and grinned and trotted down to the ocean's edge..."
"(Actually, he was very intelligent. An IQ test taken in prison gave him a rating of 130)"
"You couldn't agree with him, he was so excited. The glory of having everyone at his mercy, that's what excited him" (Perry about Dick)
"His self-esteem is very low, and he feels secretly inferior to others and sexually inadequate"..."In summary, he shows fairly typical characteristics of what would be psychiatrically called a severe character disorder"
"Ain't that what I promised you, honey - plenty of hair on them-those walls?"
"I'm going to bust that little girl" (Dick about Nancy" "And I [Perry] said, Uh-uh. But you'll have to kill me first"
"Before I ever went there to their house I knew there would be a girl there. I think the main reason that I went there was not to rob them but to rape the girl" (in written confession)
" 'Boy!' he said - and it was what he always said after running down a dog, which was something that he did whenever the opportunity arose. 'Boy! We sure splattered him!: "
"His former faith in the tough, the "totally masculine", the pragmatic, the decisive Dick he'd once allowed to boss him" (Perry's faith at times in Dick)
"And Dick, with his light-hearted "con-man patter", his sex anecdotes and gamy jokes, was popular with his inmates"
"Dick was sulky and restless, he ran around with older men, drank and gambled. 'He just wasn't the same boy' " (Mr Hickock's testimony)
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"But neither Dick's physique nor the inky gallery adorning it made as remarkable an impression as his face, which seemed composed of mismatching parts. It was as though his head had been halved like an apple, then put together a fraction off centre"
"If he sees that the Boss appreciates his work he will go out of his way for him. Tell him in a pleasant way how you want it done. He is very touchie [...] How well I know that Perry is goodhearted if you treat him rite" (Perry's father)
"There's much I haven't said that may interest you. I have always felt a remarkable exhilaration being among people with a purpose and a sense of dedication to carry out that purpose"
"You think I like myself? Oh, the man I could have been! But that bastard never gave me a chance. He wouldn't let me go to school. O.K. O.K. I was a bad kid. But the time came I begged to go to school. I happen to have a brilliant mind. In case you don't know. A brilliant mind and talent plus. But no education, because he didn't want me to learn anything, only how to tote and carry for him. Dumb. Ignorant. That's the way he wanted me to be"
"Perry said "Priests and nuns have had their chance with me. I'm still wearing the scars to prove it" "
" 'But a nigger,' said Perry, 'That's different.' "
"He had been intent on improving his companion's grammar and expanding his vocabulary ever since they had celled together at Kansas State Penitentiary"
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"Dick wore bathing trunks, but Perry, as in Acapulco, refused to expose his injured legs - he feared the sight might "offend" other beach-goers - and therefore sat fully clothed, even wearing socks and shoes"
"(Perry was 'ashamed' to take off his trousers... for he was afraid that the sight of injured legs would 'disgust' people... He hadn't once gone in the water)"
"From this time on I started to realise the importance of an education. This only added to the hatred and bitterness I felt for others I began to get into fights"
"You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving to project his individuality against a backdrop of rigid conformity" (Willie Jay)
"Drove like hell, Dick driving. I think we both felt very high. I did. Very high and relieved at the same time. Couldn't stop laughing, neither of us; suddenly it all seemed very funny - I don't know why, it just did"