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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
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
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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Alive Destroy Happiness Place 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
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Childhood Happiness Yourself
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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Knowledge Oneself Wisdom
The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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Best Planning Time Yourself
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
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
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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Courage Face Resolution See
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
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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Existence Forever
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
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
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Face Human Life
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

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