Kim Black Favourite Quotes Collection

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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha ChristieCurious 39
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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
Agatha ChristieFate 39
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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.
Agatha ChristieSympathy 52
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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
Agatha ChristieBooks 69
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christieage 82
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To say goodbye is to die a little.
Raymond ChandlerChange 33
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Raymond ChandlerCome 51
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The streets were dark with something more than night.
Raymond ChandlerDark 86
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Raymond ChandlerDown 89
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I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.
Dashiell HammettUncategorized 44
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I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.
Dashiell HammettLove 62
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
Laura Ingalls WilderHome 46
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Home is the nicest word there is.
Laura Ingalls WilderHome 40
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If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory like scent. And it never faded and it never got stale. And then when one wanted it the bottle could be uncorked and it would be like living the moment all over again.
Daphne du MaurierFiction 42
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du MaurierHappiness 139
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Id rather take coffee than compliments just now.
Louisa May AlcottCoffee 65
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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Louisa May AlcottMom 72
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When in doubt give advice.
Louisa May AlcottAdvice 77
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Louisa May AlcottControl 82
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Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May AlcottLove 103
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History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian FlemingHero 42
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I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
Rex StoutUncategorized 28
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.
Rex StoutUncategorized 30
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Too late I found you cant wait to become perfect you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
Ray BradburyPerfection 97
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray BradburyUncategorized 155
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Mark TwainWords 200
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Its better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt
Mark TwainHumorous 395
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary PickfordPower 619
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