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I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

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Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'

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

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I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

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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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Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

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

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To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

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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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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

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It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

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What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

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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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I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

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