Colin Dexter Quotes

#1. Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. - VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary

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#2. I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.

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#3. During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.

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#4. Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.

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#5. He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.

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#6. There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse

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#7. Morse poured himself a can of beer. Champagne's a lovely drink, but it makes you thirsty, doesn't it?

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#8. The coolness of the wall mirror. He

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#9. He poured himself a good measure of Glenfiddich; and shortly thereafter fell deeply asleep in the chair for more than two hours. Bliss.

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#10. Morse firmly believed that there was nothing so unsatisfactory as this kind of halfway house pornography; he liked it hot or not at all.

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#11. No, Lewis. Unlike you, I've lived a very sheltered life. I have tried to get invited along to one of these porno-parties, but everybody seems to think I'm above such things.

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#12. This was exactly why holidays were so valuable, he told himself: they allowed you to stand back a bit, and see where you were going rusty.

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#13. And Lewis felt excitement, and gratification. Somebody - some

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#14. Though I am still ... exceedingly puzzled as to why our murderer should decide to draw almost inevitable attention to himself by wearing such a conspicuous pair of plimsolls and running around Burford for two and a half hours.

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#15. As a boy, he had been moved by those words of the dying Socrates, suggesting that if death were just one long, unbroken, dreamless sleep, then a greater boon could hardly be bestowed upon mankind.

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#16. I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

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#17. He was somewhat of a loner by temperament
because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.

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#18. The secret of a happy life, Lewis, is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

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#19. You've never seen any evidence of drugs - any packets of drugs? Crack? Speed? Ecstasy? Anything? Anything at all?" Had she? "No," she said. Almost truthfully. "You've never smelt anything suspicious?" "I wouldn't know what they smell like, drugs," she

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#20. He sighed and knew that life was full of 'if only' for everyone

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#21. My life will not be significantly impoverished if I never see another Shakespearian comedy.

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#22. Was he really looking forward to it? They were usually a bit of anticlimax, these things. Stillit would do him good. Or serve him right

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#23. She had the inestimable merit of being interesting.

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#24. was with Ashenden that Morse's attention was immediately

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#25. Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)

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