Some crime or offence is committed. The match starts on the basis of more or less objective facts. It’s a problem with one or more unknowns that a rational mind tries to solve.
“And there they were, just lying there in the middle of all his papers. How long had she been in the room? Had she seen them?”
― Magpie Murders
― Magpie Murders
“Some crime or offence is committed. The match starts on the basis of more or less objective facts. It’s a problem with one or more unknowns that a rational mind tries to solve.”
― Pietr the Latvian
― Pietr the Latvian
“But what he sought, what he waited and watched out for, was the crack in the wall. In other words, the instant when the human being comes out from behind the opponent.”
― Pietr the Latvian
― Pietr the Latvian
“I didn’t ever take to Mary Blakiston and I’m not going to start singing her praises just because she managed to fall down a flight of stairs and break her neck.”
― Magpie Murders
― Magpie Murders
“A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there.… And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.”
― Jurassic Park
― Jurassic Park
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