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Martha Grimes
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“The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.”
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“... in the sanctum sanctorum of dusty men's clubs ... rigor mortis seemed a cause rather than an effect of death.”
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“Wiggins was about to answer, and seeing he might be divulging privileged information, shut up like a drawer.”
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“Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being onto something big.”
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“... in the manner of all humans, who are convinced the one call gone unanswered must be The Call, the hot-line from the Universe, Jury weakened and plucked up the receiver.”
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“It was possible to talk to Agatha and read simultaneously.”
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“Talking's just a nervous habit.”
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“Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.”
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“He was the type who'd be any man's mirror: you couldn't help looking at him without wanting to straighten your tie and curse your tailor.”
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“Fictional characters, he had lately found, were generally more interesting dinner companions than flesh-and-blood ones.”
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“Writing is an antisocial act.”
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“You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.”
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“... writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.”
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“I cleared my throat — it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.”
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“We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.”
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“He flashed that smile, piratical, conspiratorial, like a man with a knife between his teeth.”
Martha Grimes, U.S. writer
(1931)