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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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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

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It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

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

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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

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... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

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... obsessions are always dangerous.

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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

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The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

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

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The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

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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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there is evil everywhere under the sun.

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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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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

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