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"Women and elephants never forget."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
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"Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world."
"The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even if I just sit there and observe silently, not seen: that is important, that I as a watcher of all that happens should be at my place."
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"I'm almost afraid to tell you. Let's put it this way: clean toilets are the least of your problems in this country."
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"One must always proceed with method. I made an error of judgment asking you that question. Toeach man his own knowledge. You could tell me the details of the patient's physical appearance- nothing there would escape you. If I wanted information about the papers on the desk, Mr. Raymond would have noticed anything there was to see. To find out about the fire, I must ask the man whose business is to observe such things. - Detective Hercule Poirot to Doctor Sheppard."
"He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself."
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"You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine."
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"I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, 'How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree."
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."
"She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age."
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."
"Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night."
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