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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"Knowledge is intellectual art."
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"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"Knowledge is life."
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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
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"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
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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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