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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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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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The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

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In the midst of life, we are in death.

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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

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To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

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Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

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To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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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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