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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

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Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

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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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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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If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

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

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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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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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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 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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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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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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It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

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how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

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a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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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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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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