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The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

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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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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

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Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

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It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

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It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

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The truth often does sound unconvincing.

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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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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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One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

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a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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Fear is incomplete knowledge.

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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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Books are a habit-forming drug.

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

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