Thomas Griesedieck

“Perhaps you’d like a drink.” “Not before lunch. I’m the new-type detective.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target

“They had come to praise him.
"It was so beautiful, so comical, so true to life!" the doctor said.
The little girl gave him the flowers and the Mayor embraced him lightly. "Oh, we thought, signore," he said, "that you were merely a poet.”
― John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

“We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

“He looked like a man who could make trouble, a man who looked after his money, a man who was not quite a gentleman.”
― John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold