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I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is t...more

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But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

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Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

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The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or...more

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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

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I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. ...more

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There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hy...more

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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

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Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

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The two words expressed volumes.

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He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet ...more

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Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth i...more

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It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.