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We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

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Dashiell Hammett

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

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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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I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.

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