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"Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door."

"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage."

"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide."
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"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."


"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."


"Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset."


"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."


"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."


"All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely."


"The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him."


"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
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