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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Agatha Christie

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
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
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
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
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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Disaster Feeling Horrible Lose Oneself War Win
It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Spiritual Yourself
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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Dog Quiet Wisdom World Wound
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
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
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
Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.
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Creature Encouragement Need Writing
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
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Life Moments Oneself Recognition
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Eat Engagement Service Stomach
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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Growth Marriage Myself Old Praise
What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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Deep Goodness Happiness Money
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Childhood Happiness Yourself
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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Appearance Impossible Possible
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
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
There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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Evil Freedom God Man Tendency Willing
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
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
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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Person Thinking Wrong
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Problem Simplicity Solution
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
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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Darkness Desire Friendship Mystery Passion Yourself

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