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Quotes
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DCI Fred Thursday : New year. New decade. New start. You always hope for better, don't you?
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DCI Fred Thursday : [showing Win what he's impulsively bought] Bought a couple of canaries down the market. A pair: a cock and a hen; we might get some chicks.
Win Thursday : [very annoyed] Might we?
DCI Fred Thursday : I used to keep birds when I was a boy. Well, look after them for the old man. I thought it might be... something, uh, uh, an interest.
Win Thursday : Feathers everywhere.
DCI Fred Thursday : [realizing he's made a mistake] It's not feathers everywhere and if it is I'll, I'll... see to it. It's two birds; they're not going to bother you.
Win Thursday : [unbending] Well, where are we going to put them?
DCI Fred Thursday : [losing his temper] Where are we going to keep them? Up my arse, Winifred! That's where we're going to keep them! Up my arse! Like David Nixon.
Win Thursday : [very cool] I'm just asking. No need for language.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [confronting the killer of Dr. Benford] You'll never breathe free air again. Why not come clean? Get it off your chest.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [voicing his suspicions of Carl Sturgis] It's him. I know it is. I can feel it in my corns.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [asked about religious faith] Can't say I've had much use for it in civilian life - outside of court, of course. We weren't Bible-raised.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [about the ESP experiments] Anything in it, do you think? I mean this sixth-sense business. I've always had it down as a load of old baloney. I mean, if you had the gift of second sight, or whatever it is, you'd be down the bookies', wouldn't you? Not trying to see what Mr. Brezhnev's got in his briefcase.
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Dorothea Frazil : [meeting Thursday at the murder scene] So, how was your New Year's Eve? Resolutions?
DCI Fred Thursday : [grimly] Find out who did this. You?
Dorothea Frazil : Oh, I'm long past mending my ways.
