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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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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."
"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."
"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."
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
"If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little."
"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
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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."
"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."
"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."
"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."
"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."
"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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