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One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

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I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.

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The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

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Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

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What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.

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You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.

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My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

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