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Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.

Agatha Christie

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
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
The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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Best Planning Time Yourself
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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Growth Marriage Myself Old Praise
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
It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!
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Mystery Remove Romance
Time is the best killer.
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Best Kill One Liner Time
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
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
If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Hard Oneself Principle See
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
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Innocence One Liner Person
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Face Human Life
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
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
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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Appearance Impossible Possible

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