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The Player on the Other Side

Book by Ellery Queen · 6 quotes · Attentive, Attentiveness, Eavesdropping

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“The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether.”

Kindness Listening Listening To Others Attentiveness Listening Skills Attentive Waiting To Speak

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“He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an instant and utter reflex of stillness to counteract all outward evidence of surprise, fear, anything.”

Expression Self Control Expressiveness Emotive

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“The place smelled male, not the metal-and-soap maleness of a locker room nor the malt-and-sawdust maleness of an old-time corner saloon, but the leather-and-oiled-wood maleness of a city club, as finished and self-consistent as the ash of a fine cigar. At sight of the skirted figure stalking him, the sole visible attendant took refuge behind a showcase; surely a giraffe, were it a male one, would have startled him less.”

Swooning Over Sentences Pretty Prose Men S World Good Ole Boys

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“Now, Jehovah, Yahweh, was a member of no Trinity, was represented by no lambs, suffered no little children. He was an almighty vindictive deity. He meddled in individual lives. And He was always right because He was.”

God Jehovah Yahweh Old Testament God

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“Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused, but there were times when he would enjoy loading all the rubbernecks onto barges and towing them out to sea to be served, with ceremony, to sharks.”

Eavesdropping Gossips Rubbernecker Rubbernecking

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“If it pains you to discover that a Nice Man can be a crumbum, Tom, it's life you've got to object to, not Percy in particular.”

Niceness Two Faced People Two Facedness Nice Guy Syndrome

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