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“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective story,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a tragedy with a happy ending.' A storybook detective starts by confronting us with a murder and ends by absolving us of it. He clears us of guilt. He relieves us of uncertainty. He removes us from the presence of death.”
― The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
― The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
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