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Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

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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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if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

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Hate doesn't last. Love does.

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

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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

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No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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

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I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

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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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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

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You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

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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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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

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... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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Fear is incomplete knowledge.

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a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

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