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But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

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I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

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I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

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I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

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I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

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

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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

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Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

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Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.

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... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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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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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

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Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

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Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

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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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Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

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

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