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Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

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With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

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Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

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There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

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... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

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The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

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People who can be very good can be very bad too.

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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

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