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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 one thing that matters is the effort."
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"Hard tasks need hard ways."
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"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."
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"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
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"Everything is hard before it is easy."
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"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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"A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results."
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"You can or you can't is not the matter.You wanted to or you tried is the whole game about."
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"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."
Thought
"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."
Fun
"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."
Decision-Making
"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."
Home
"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."
Joy
"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."
Decision-Making
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
Reflection
"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful."
Effort
"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote."
Criticism
"I have a strong moral sense - by my standards."
Sense
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