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Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.

Agatha Christie

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
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Hard Knowledge Life Live Love Sad Save Suffering Yourself
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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Expression Greatness People Proper Trouble Writing
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.
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Direction Myself Necessary Possible Save Thinking Trouble
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
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Beginning Human Mindset Remember Result Thinking Value
It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!
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Mystery Remove Romance
Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Assumption Dangerous One Liner
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.
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Age Bloom Enjoyment Greatness Life Open Yourself
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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Children Dare Herself Law Love Mom Path Stand World
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.
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Account Fact Let Go Theory
When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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Fact Let Go Theory
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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Courage Face Resolution See
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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Alive Destroy Happiness Place Yourself
Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Different Present Time
It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
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Important Inspirational Man Mistake Wasted Time Work
Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
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God Sin Yourself

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