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…It was embarrassing now to recall with what little regret he had let slip his pleasures and preoccupations, the imminence of loss revealing them for ...more

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Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

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Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through ...more

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All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her ch...more

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Before he turned again the to the car his eye was caught by a small clump of unknown flowers. The pale pinkish white heads rose from a mossy pad on to...more

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Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bur...more

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What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

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All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

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Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in profit, and their Sundays were marked by exhaustio...more

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Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well...more

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What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted."Turgid but grammatical. And, in ...more

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(A murderer about their victim:)"He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing.