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"I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow."
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"When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad."
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"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
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"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
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"Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London."
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"Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?"
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"Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful."
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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."
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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
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"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
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"That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it."
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"But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared."
Life
"We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three."
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"What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry."
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"I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow."
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"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
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