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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

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One must make one's own mistakes

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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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It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

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A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

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

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What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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

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Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

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Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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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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It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

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

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