Colin Dexter quotes
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“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”
-- Colin DexterSource : "Fictional character: Chief Inspector Morse". "Inspector Morse/ The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn", www.imdb.com. 1987.
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“There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse”
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“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.”
-- Colin DexterSource : Colin Dexter (2013). “Inspector Morse: The first three novels”, p.356, Pan Macmillan
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“I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.”
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“I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The business of getting going, getting started, is enormously important, and this can be physical. Solvitur Ambulando as the Romans used to say, which means the solution comes through walking.”
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“For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.”
-- Colin DexterSource : Source: strandmag.com
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“We read so much about incompetence and corruption in all sorts of places. I'm not just thinking of the United Kingdom and the United States. Almost everywhere there seems to me to be an increase in incompetence and general dishonesty. This is what I mean about democracy - you feel that you've got the ability to arrange things and influence matters and it's not quite so easy as that, I'm afraid.”
-- Colin DexterSource : Source: strandmag.com
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“I've not much faith in the future of the planet and I'm not just thinking about Mr. Bush or global warming. I feel that we've lost our way and it looks as if, in so many fields, things are turning sour. Even democracy is turning sour, isn't it?”
-- Colin DexterSource : Source: strandmag.com
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“There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India until recently, and China. So many of them have been brought to our notice by television that we've almost become inured to cruelty and disasters and hopelessness in the world. We don't seem to have made an awfully good job of running things as a sort of planetary cabinet.”
-- Colin DexterSource : Source: strandmag.com
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“I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.”
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“I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.”
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Source : Arthur Gray (2012). “The Little Tea Book”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand
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