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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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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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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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

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I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

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Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

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Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

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Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.

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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

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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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When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

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With thought, all problems can be resolved.

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If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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