...is not a crime?

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead. 

-Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)

say how much...

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little. 

-Petrarch, scholar and poet (1304-1374)

bicycle remains pure...

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. 

-Iris Murdoch, writer (1919-1999)

..shame to boast

It was my shame, and now it is my boast, That I have loved you rather more than most. 

-Hilaire Belloc, writer and poet (1870-1953)

contradict to avoid...

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. 

-Marcel Duchamp, artist (1887-1968)