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The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

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There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

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And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

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I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

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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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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

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

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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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... nothing is so boring as devotion.

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The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

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... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

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If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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