An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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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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But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
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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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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
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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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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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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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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
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Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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