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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

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Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

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There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

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When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

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I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

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I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

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The rottenness comes from within.

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One does what one can, not what one cannot.

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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

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From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

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... obsessions are always dangerous.

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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

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