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Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

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With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

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There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

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Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

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I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

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Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

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It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

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You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

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Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

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One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

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Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

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She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.

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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

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You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

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I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

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