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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

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

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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

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I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

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

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

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And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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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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You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

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You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

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I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

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