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The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.

Agatha Christie

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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Childhood Happiness Life Luck
It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!
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Mystery Remove Romance
What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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Deep Goodness Happiness Money
Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Different Present Time
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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Complete Fear Knowledge One Liner
The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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Change Life People Tragedy
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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Delight Fellow Mad People Quiet
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
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Alive Despair Live Misery Myself Quite Sorrow Wild
The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.
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Age Fools Old People Young
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Problem Simplicity Solution
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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Crime Innocence Justice Mercy Need Result Victim
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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Courage Face Resolution See
Books are a habit-forming drug.
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Book Drug Form Habit
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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Existence Forever
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
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
Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.
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Creature Encouragement Need Writing
I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.
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Experience Life Mindset Peace 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
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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Kill Murder Potential Rise Time Willing
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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Disaster Lose Oneself War Win
Time is the best killer.
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Best Kill One Liner Time
One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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Ourselves Quite Togetherness
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
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth
When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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Fact Let Go Theory

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