S. S. Van Dine quotes
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“Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders.”
-- S. S. Van DineSource : S. S. Van Dine (2016). “The Bishop Murder Case”, S. S. Van Dine
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“There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.”
-- S. S. Van DineSource : S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.4, Booklassic
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“There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer,”
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“A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude.”
-- S. S. Van DineSource : S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.6, Booklassic
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“Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.”
-- S. S. Van DineSource : S. S. Van Dine (1929). “The Bishop Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story”, Castrovilli Giuseppe
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“Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.”
-- S. S. Van DineSource : S.S. Van Dine (2013). “The Philo Vance Megapack: 12 Classic Mysteries - The Complete Series”, p.1022, Wildside Press LLC
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“It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime.”
-- S. S. Van DineSource : S.S. Van Dine (1956). “The Greene Murder Case”
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Source : Alfred C. Kinsey (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”, p.4, Indiana University Press
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Source : "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.
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“I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.”
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Source : Source: collider.com
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“To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it,”
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“I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things...”
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