Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
AGATHA CHRISTIEIntuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
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Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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Assumptions are dangerous things.
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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
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Time is the best killer.
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The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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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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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!
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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
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To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
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I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
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