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“When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible?”
― The Innocence of Father Brown
― The Innocence of Father Brown
“You are armoured, of course, by the creative artist's splinter of ice in the heart.”
― A Certain Justice
― A Certain Justice
“Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.”
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“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
“But in grieving for a murderer, thou art not grieving for the monstrous. Thou grievest for the man who failed to reject the monstrous act.”
― The Witness for the Dead
― The Witness for the Dead
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