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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

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Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

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Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

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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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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

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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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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

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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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Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

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I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

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the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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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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To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

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