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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

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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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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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

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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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With thought, all problems can be resolved.

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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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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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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

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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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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

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

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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

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