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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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

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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

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It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

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The rottenness comes from within.

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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

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Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

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The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

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No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

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With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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In the midst of life, we are in death.

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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

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