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Detectives Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- A really good detective never gets married.
- The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense…
- Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.
- Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of…
- The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can…
- You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
- The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average…
- It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness…
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- Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. — John Buchan
- I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series. — Robert Carlyle
- A really good detective never gets married. — Raymond Chandler
- It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie
- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke
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