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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.

Agatha Christie

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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Appearance Funny Goodness Hard Life Man Yourself
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
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Busy Immortal Live Need People
The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Education Expectation Simplicity
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
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Certain Oneself Sound Thinking Word
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
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Care Failure Goodness Happiness People
Books are a habit-forming drug.
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Book Drug Form Habit
Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Assumption Dangerous One Liner
I learned that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn’t it?
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Essence Learning Life Myself Try
Don’t think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
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Mindset Thinking Way Wrong Yourself
Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Different Present Time
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
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Fool Herself Love Man Woman
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
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Alone Oneself Remember
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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Knowledge Oneself Wisdom
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Advice Money Trust
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
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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Children Experience Growth Intuition Reading Word
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
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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Human Life Nature See Train Wonderful
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
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
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth
It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Spiritual Yourself
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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Acceptance Companion Company Friendship Goodness Grave Learning Live Yourself
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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Best Herself Husband Old Woman
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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Appearance Impossible Possible
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
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Lie Long People Run Truth
You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
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Age Fight Live Material Willing Yourself

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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