English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957)

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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.
I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking.
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

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