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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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

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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

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Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

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

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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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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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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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The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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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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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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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

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I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

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