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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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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

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Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

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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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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

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Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

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

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One place is very like another.

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

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

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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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

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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

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

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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

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