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It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

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Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

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I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

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The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

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It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

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One place is very like another.

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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

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In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

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Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

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A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

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We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

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