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After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer in the back of the refrigerator...


Robert B. Parker


#detectives #food #spenser #food

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.


Oscar Wilde


#america #been #detected #discovered #had

I removed all the doors to our love, so you can’t lock yourself away from me. But I didn’t stop there. I also replaced the doors with metal detectors, so I could fondle you more efficiently, like the highly trained professionals do who run airport security.



Jarod Kintz


#doors #efficiency #efficient #efficiently #fondle

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.


John Buchan


#born #bottom #detective #every #every man

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me." "Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.


Robert B. Parker


#humor #spenser #humor

Of all the ways to murder someone, slowly, over the course of about 75 years or so, is the best way to not get caught. Nobody, not even Sherlock Holmes, would suspect a thing.


Jarod Kintz


#detective #murder #sherlock-holmes #suspicion #death

We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang.


China Miéville


#hunches #inspiration #saints #inspirational

Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped into his eyes. He grappled for the nearest bedpost and slumped forward on extended arms. His shoulders jerked and head sagged a little while his heart broke. Old Man cried the mute cry of men of his generation.


Ed Lynskey


#noir #private-detective #suspense #thriller #men

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.


Alain Resnais


#going #here #i #new #new york

Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.


Walther Bothe


#also #another #atomic #between #both