Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

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I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not—how shall I express it?—a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain—I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.

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Tout de même, it is not necessary that he should be killed on the Orient Express. There are other places.

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See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.

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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it—often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

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Do you always travel first-class, Mr. Hardman?
Yes, sir. The firm pays my travelling expenses.
He winked.

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Me, I am convinced it is the truth, said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.

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It was abominable—wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.

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Mon ami, if you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs. That is all I have done.

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Exactly! It is absurd — improbable — it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.

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It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved, she explained.

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I like to see an angry Englishman, said Poirot. They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

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The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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She shrugged her shoulders slightly.
What can one do?
You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.

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