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

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A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

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Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

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

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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He laughs best who laughs at the end.

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Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

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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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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

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Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

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

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

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