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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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It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

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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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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

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Time is the best killer.

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If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

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

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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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There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

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I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

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

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I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

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

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I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

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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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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

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