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" 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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" As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. "

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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. "

" Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. "

" 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 think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best. "

" 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. "

" The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote. "

" Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful. "

" Everything in a story should be credible. "