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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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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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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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If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

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I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

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Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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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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Things never come when they are expected.

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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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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

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When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

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Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

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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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