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Assumptions are dangerous things.

Agatha Christie

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
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth
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
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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Character Invention Life Tired Yourself
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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Children Failure Oneself Past See View World
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
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
To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
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Brain Count Goodness True Woman
There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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Different Doubt Money Myself Oneself People World
Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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Advice Heart Heart Broken Myself
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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Intrigue Listening
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
It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!
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Mystery Remove Romance
Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
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God Sin Yourself
Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.
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Creature Encouragement Need Writing
It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
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Love People Suffering

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