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Rex Stout:
I never try to do any deep thinking while I’m driving; the thinking gets you nowhere and the driving might get you where you would rather not be . . . .
Stout, Rex: The Father Hunt (New York: Bantam, 1969), p. 52.
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John Dickson Carr:
Among unthinking chroniclers it is much the fashion, at certain movements of mysticism, to embark on a reflection as to how, if it were not for such-and-such a small thing happening, then such-and-such larger thing would not have happened, until they have ultimately proved King Priam’s bootblack responsible for the fall of Troy. Which is, demonstrably, nonsense.
Carr, John Dickson, The Blind Barber (New York: Collier Books, 1962), p. 149
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Neil Dudgeon (as Inspector John Barnaby):
That is a sense of community, Jones. One goes mad, they all go mad.