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to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be." - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan

Gosho Aoyama
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A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better than a murderer himself. - Kudo Shinichi

Gosho Aoyama
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The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics. by Hannu Rajaniemi

The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.

Hannu Rajaniemi
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It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

Ingrid Newkirk
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I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.

Jacqueline Bisset
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I love people, studying people. That's the Scorpio part of me. We are natural detectives; we like to find things out.

James Van Praagh
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The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask. by Jane Roberts

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

Jane Roberts
criminalsdetectivesevil

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

Jeff Lindsay
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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Jeffery Deaver
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No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

Jennifer Echols
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Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant... by Jo Coudert

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

Jo Coudert
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The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe.

Joe Navarro
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I play a detective, very close to myself actually. by Jon Voight

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

Jon Voight
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I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Kazuo Ishiguro
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I think like a detective. by Laurell K. Hamilton

I think like a detective.

Laurell K. Hamilton
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A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.

Lisa Sanders
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I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion of too much personal context - Ilike to be a detective, and dislike being an impresario.

Luc Sante
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The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

Manny Farber
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Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful... by Matthew McConaughey

Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

Matthew McConaughey
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Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

Mason Cooley
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