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Book cover for The Templeton Case: A Detective Story

The Templeton Case: A Detective Story by Victor L. Whitechurch

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The man’s Jewish instincts were predominating now that the crisis was over.

“Eugene McCarthy was the last American presidential candidate who thought flattering an audience’s intelligence was the way to win their hearts and their votes.”
― Lawrence O'Donnell, Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

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“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Fencing Master: A Deadly Arcane Secret and a Beautiful Woman Draw a Master into the Shadowy Politics of Madrid

tags: chapter-iii

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“There’s something in me that recognized you. Right from the start. The parts of me that always felt alone, the parts of me that I always kept hidden away, out of sight—I could see that you had them, too.”
― Julia Spencer-Fleming, Out of the Deep I Cry

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“The muffins were for Carol, the woman Henry had left her for. Naturally, Carol was younger. Julie knew only one man who'd betrayed his marriage for a woman older than his wife, and it was overstating it to say she knew Prince Charles.”
― Stephen McCauley, My Ex-Life

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“Well, now listen, Lafe, I want you to do something for me. I want you to bring it up here to the Sharon place right away... What?... Ain’t legal?... Listen, Lafe, I’m the sheriff and murder’s been done, and I can’t wait to get no court orders, and if you don’t get it up here inside half an hour, I’ll arrest you for maintaining a still on account of that gallon of home brew whiskey you give me for Christmas… Yes... All right, and get a move on you.”
― H Ashbrook

tags: humor

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