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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

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Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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Books are a habit-forming drug.

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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

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I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

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The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

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Fear is incomplete knowledge.

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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

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