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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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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

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

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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

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When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

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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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At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

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Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

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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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What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

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

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It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

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There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

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