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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 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."
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"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it."
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"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
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"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"Success does not come to a person's life by chance you have to fight for it."
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"Anybody can choose to relax but somebody must choose to pursue."
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"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."
Being
"I have a strong moral sense - by my standards."
Sense
"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."
Woman
"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote."
Criticism
"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."
Fun
"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."
Love
"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."
Effort
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
Reflection
"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."
Joy
"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful."
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