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«The reason there are so many imbeciles among imprisoned criminals is that an imbecile is so foolish even a detective can detect him»
Author: Austin O'Malley
| About:
Crime,
Foolishness
| Keywords:
criminals, detect, detecting, detective, detects, imbecile, imbeciles, imprisoned
«A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.»
«What a rotten writer of detective stories life is!»
«It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
New York
| Keywords:
detective, detective stories, detective story, New York City
«Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
detective, detective stories, detective story, science fiction, westerns
«We have archeology on television, and I quite like it; it?s a sort of detective thing, but it?s really true, you know it?s there? But it?s kind of slow on telly, it has this problem of, ?We?ve been here three weeks on live television, and we?ve taken off about a millimeter of top soil so far?? There?s men with brushes and beards? maybe they?ve just got beards, I?m not sure? ?We found this and carbon-dated it to last Tuesday, so we?re very excited??»
Author: Eddie Izzard
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
archeology, beards, brushes, carbon, carbons, dated, detective, excited, millimeter, Not sure, soil, telly, Three Weeks, Tuesday, Tuesdays, weeks
«A really good detective never gets married.»
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