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... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

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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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Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

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From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

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Fear is incomplete knowledge.

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I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

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A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

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It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

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