- Embraces
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery Quotes
On suspense, secrecy, and the pull of not knowing.
These quotes move between a filmmaker's take on the ongoing-killer structure of a horror franchise and an unrelated aside on how intuitive a modern device can be. A more poetic line asks for a plain, quiet mystery rather than an elaborate one. Try Mystery riddles for a playful companion page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
- Crossover
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.
- Relax
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax.' And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
- Detective Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020