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That is why most great love stories are tragedies. (Agatha Christie)
To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot. View quote
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People should be interested in books, not their authors. View quote
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And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by. View quote
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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. View quote
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No sign, so far, of anything sinister-but I live in hope. View quote
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Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective. View quote
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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing. View quote
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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out! (Agatha Christie)
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. View quote
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He laughs best who laughs at the end. View quote
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At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled. View quote
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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control. View quote
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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 general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists. View quote
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]. View quote
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I'm used to that. It often seems to me that's all detective work is - wiping out your false starts and beginning again. View quote
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Nothing", I said sadly. "They are two delightful women!" "And neither of them is for you?" finished Poirot. "Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows? View quote
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Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas. View quote
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Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it. (Agatha Christie)
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off. View quote
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Children and one's social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them. View quote
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It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women. View quote
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One has occasionally to pocket one's pride and readjust one's ideas. View quote
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