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| 1. | An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. |
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| 2. | An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. |
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| 3. | Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her. |
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| 4. | But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. |
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| 5. | But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price. |
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| 6. | Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. |
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| 7. | Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. |
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| 8. | 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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| 9. | Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. |
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| 10. | Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity. |
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| 11. | Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. |
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| 12. | Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. |
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| 13. | 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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| 14. | 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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| 15. | 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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| 16. | I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. |
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| 17. | I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me. |
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| 18. | I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. |
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| 19. | I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. |
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| 20. | If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. |
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| 21. | It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. |
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| 22. | It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. |
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| 23. | Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. |
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| 24. | Never do anything yourself that others can do for you. |
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| 25. | One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. |
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| 26. | 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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| 27. | One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. |
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| 28. | The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. |
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| 29. | The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. |
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| 30. | The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. |
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| 31. | The secret of getting ahead is getting started. |
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| 32. | There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. |
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| 33. | There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. |
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| 34. | These little grey cells. It is up to them. |
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| 35. | 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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| 36. | Very few of us are what we seem. |
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| 37. | Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. |
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