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In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

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Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

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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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It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

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

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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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

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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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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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Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

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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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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

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