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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

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If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

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One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

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The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

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To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 1st, 1886

Died: October 27th, 1975

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