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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 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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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

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

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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

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The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

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It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

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Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

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And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

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I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

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Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

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The rottenness comes from within.

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

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There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.

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