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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."
Effort
"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."
Woman
"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."
Being
"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
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
Reflection
"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."
Love
"I have a strong moral sense - by my standards."
Sense
"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
"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote."
Criticism
"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
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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Personal Development
"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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Personal Development
"The only way to make a great thought great is to share it."
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Personal Development
"Language is the dress of thought."
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Personal Development
"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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Personal Development
"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."
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