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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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Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

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Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

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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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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

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I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

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all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

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To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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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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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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

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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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The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

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