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    Gary Davis
    “Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.”
    ― Gary Davis
    tags: excess, limit, mind
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    “The fat woman came and offered us Turkish cigarettes and little red cubes of sweet stuff that smelled like soap and tasted like hell”
    ― Cameron McCabe, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
    tags: 1930s, crime-fiction
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Raymond Chandler
    “She was a cute as a washtub.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
    tags: crime-fiction, film-noir, mystery
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    B.V. Lawson
    “She was a tornado in a skirt.”
    ― B.V. Lawson, Dies Irae
    tags: crime-fiction, mystery-novels, mystery-series
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    “There is something wrong with coppers' I said. 'You can't punch them in the jaw when you want to.”
    ― Cameron McCabe, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
    tags: 1930s, crime-fiction
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    “To clear up a murder you must do your own killing”
    ― Cameron McCabe, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
    tags: 1930s, crime-fiction
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  • #8
    “She was not trying to hide something; nothing she might have tried to hide was left in her”
    ― Cameron McCabe, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
    tags: 1930s, crime-fiction
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    Georges Simenon
    “Could you tell me, Maigret, why plainclothes policemen always go around in twos, just like plumbers?”
    ― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse
    tags: 1950s, crime-fiction
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    Georges Simenon
    “You came to France to find out about our methods, and you will have observed that we don't have any.”
    ― Georges Simenon, My Friend Maigret
    tags: 1940s, belgian, crime-fiction, police-procedural
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    Georges Simenon
    “Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always idealists.”
    ― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse
    tags: crime, crime-fiction, criminals, idealists
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    Ian Rankin
    “Sometimes I think we're all gentlemen of the road. It's just that most of us haven't got the courage to take that first step.”
    ― Ian Rankin
    tags: crime, crime-fiction, gentlemen, tramp
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “They say you can't cheat death, well that doesn't stop these guys from trying.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse
    tags: crime-caper, crime-fiction, deathryde, heist, humor, rebel-without-a-corpse, satire
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  • #14
    “I hate it when young attractive women tell me I remind them of their father.”
    ― John Turturro
    tags: crime-fiction, detective, hbo, tv-show-quote, tv-shows-quote
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    Val McDermid
    “She'd cook like an angel and fuck like a whore”
    ― Val McDermid, Cross and Burn
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  • #16
    Eoin Colfer
    “Good. Illegal is always faster.”
    ― Eoin Colfer
    tags: crime, expediency
    472 likes

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    Victoria Schwab
    “Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.”
    ― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
    tags: crime
    412 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: crime, science
    84 likes

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    Raymond Chandler
    “It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
    tags: crime, farewell, noir, velma
    33 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: classic, crime, detective, mystery, novel
    1547 likes

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    Sara Shepard
    “The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...”
    ― Sara Shepard, Flawless
    tags: mystery, thriller
    908 likes

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    John D. MacDonald
    “We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.”
    ― John D. MacDonald, Darker Than Amber
    tags: crime-fiction, great-opening-lines, mystery
    43 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Well,' said Father Brown 'It depends what you mean by shot.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Incredulity of Father Brown
    tags: crime-fiction
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Jim McGrath
    “What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for with ego.”
    ― Jim McGrath, A Death in Spring: 1968
    tags: crime-fiction, humourous, insult-to-intelligence, policemen, put-downs
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Maybe I'm just gonna kill you," says Mike, peeved at being predictable. "You ever think of that?"

    "No, Mike. Because if you wanted me dead, then four or five of your guys would be in the hospital and I'd have a flesh wound. Maybe.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Screwed
    tags: crime, crime-fiction, satire
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    Raymond Chandler
    “Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
    tags: detective, noir
    324 likes

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    Margery Allingham
    “There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.”
    ― Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost
    tags: albert-campion, crime, detective, murder
    14 likes

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    Agatha Christie
    “Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun
    tags: detective-stories, meta
    31 likes



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