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Dorothy Sayers:
They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting.
Sayers, Dorothy, Murder Must Advertise in a double volume with
The Five Red Herrings (New York: Harper and Row, year uncertain), p. 309.
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Rex Stout:
Archie Goodwin: “What do you swear on, the Bible?”
Julie Jaquette: “No, some of the men in it are awful, and so are the women.”
Stout, Rex, Death of a Doxy (New York: Bantam, 1995), p. 116.
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Mary McDonnell, as Sharon Raydor:
Rusty: Don’t you know what they say?
Sharon: The permission forms . . . were written by lawyers, so nobody knows what they say.
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Rex Stout, in the voice of Archie Goodwin:
The answer was really simple, but of course that’s one thing we use our minds for, finding complicated reasons for dodging simple answers.
Stout, Rex, The Doorbell Rang (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 129-130.