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Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

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To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

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There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

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Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

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... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

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Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

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I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

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