Agatha Christie quote: "It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down."

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And ...
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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a ...
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness...
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idlenes...
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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a c...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; bu...
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appear...
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Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken
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An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he ...
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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blu...
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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, H...
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and o...
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

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

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, p...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I can...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your a...
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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about t...
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through li...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it al...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Very few of us are what we seem.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

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

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

These little grey cells. It is up to them.
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective stor...
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't giv...
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves abo...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet i...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, bu...
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend an...
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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 ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

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

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly fr...
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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out...
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not...
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Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not p...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever tru...
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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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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly fro...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastro...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the sam...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I like life. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a who...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

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

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bo...
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, bu...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"

It ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes...
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The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal ...
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I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they fee...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.
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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer su...
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It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!
AGATHA CHRISTIE

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.
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For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is ...
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Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Well, people are like that too. THey create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weak...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

It can happen that if anyone is talking to a person they know cannot see well, they are careless. Th...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I know enough of life to know that you can never judge any case on its outside merits.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it ha...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?'

Poirot stared straight a...
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My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Please don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that...
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When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels
AGATHA CHRISTIE

What would Christie do?
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A Murder is Announced
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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforc...
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Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from i...
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But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means,...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fool...
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Use your little grey cells mon ami"
(Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')
- AGATHA CHRISTIE

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…...
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I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatn...
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I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.
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There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one ...
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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's ...
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Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at st...
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Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only...
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It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again....
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It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Why didn't they ask the Evans?
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It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know q...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the sam...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutelymiserable, racked with sorrow, but...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

But I don't doubt it will be essentially the same type of crime. The details may be different, but t...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

بينما تمضي الحياة ، ويصبح من المرهق الحفاظ على الشخصية ...
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Lies--and again lies--it amazes me, the amount of lies we had told to us this morning."
"There ...
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One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the...
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Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!
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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it ...
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I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?"
"That is so."
AGATHA CHRISTIE

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Enemies! People these days don't have enemies! Not English people!
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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them ...
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Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!
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She's not sensual. She doesn't want affairs. It's just cold-blooded experiment on her part and the f...
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Com maior percepção do caráter inglês, servi uma forte dose de uísque com soda e coloquei-a na ...
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With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in ...
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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
AGATHA CHRISTIE

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The sim...
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W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why.

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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a r...
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No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and deares...
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Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go...
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One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.
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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 ...
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No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
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A sound of laughter was heard-they turned sharply. Vera Claythorne was standing in the yard. She cri...
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All the same, lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily p...
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That’s right,” said Mrs. Oliver in an exasperated voice, “blame it all on me as usual!
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wanted to know.” “It’s better not to know. It’s better never to know. Better to leave things...
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From what you read and hear nowadays, it seems that murder under certain aspects is slowly but surel...
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The past is the father of the present,” said Poirot sententiously. He
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was suspicious, had always been suspicious, of mercy—too much mercy, that is to say. Too much merc...
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It was not unknown in the present age for children to commit crimes, quite young children. Children ...
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There is always a brave new world,” said Poirot, “but only, you know, for very special people. T...
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But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that h...
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May your moustaches never grow less.
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...A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in i...
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You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always ...
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There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was ...
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Put that in your mustache and smoke it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
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The past is the father of the present.
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You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I...
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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and a...
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You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...
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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She w...
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One does feel proud to belong to the human race when one sees the wonderful things human beings have...
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they are only full of pity for the young killer, because of his youth. Why should they not execute h...
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Little by little the head emerged, preserved by the sludge for about 2,500 years. There it was–the...
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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
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On ülisuur viga lasta inimesel näha või kuulda valel ajal. Enamiku inimeste jaoks kaotab Shakespe...
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I can suspend judgment on those who kill–but I think they are evil for the community; they bring i...
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One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same ey...
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Oh, the glorious relief, the wonderful relief when somebody knows what's in your mind and tells it t...
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I was, like everyone else who wrote books or read them, against the criminal and for the innocent vi...
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have a war memorial of my own at Greenway. In the library, which was their mess-room, an artist has ...
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the horror of sitting at a tea table, looking across at my best loved friend, and suddenly realising...
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Oh, you still don’t understand,’ he said impatiently. ‘I’ve fallen in love with her, and I�...
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The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such ...
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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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