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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

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

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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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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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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

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

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What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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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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... nothing is so boring as devotion.

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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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One place is very like another.

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You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

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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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I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

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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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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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I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

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