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If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

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The past is the father of the present.

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

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I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

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I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

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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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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

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It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

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Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

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The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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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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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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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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

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