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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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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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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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Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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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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To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

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I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

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... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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

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The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

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Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

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We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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