Old Lace

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Made by sarcasticsra

Theme: Literary
1. I felt that his mind might run in strange, unrecognized channels.
2. By profession he was a writer and he liked the atmosphere to be flawless.
3. There are certain places imbued and saturated with good or evil influences which can make their power felt.
4. Sunday dawned, dark and sullen, with an overcast sky and the threatenings of thunder in the air.
5. It is pretty and it is quaint, but it is very self-consciously so.
6. I had been right about the afternoon sunlight, the shadows were far more telling.
7. I hope you dear young people will never realize how very wicked the world is.
8. I have never seen a man more completely wrapped up in a child.
9. One might do something that is considered definitely wrong--that is considered a crime, even, for a very good and sufficient reason.
10. However, girls were just as obstinate then as they are now, and as they always will be.
11. There is nothing that you can tell me about people's minds that would astonish or surprise me.
12. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumors go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them.
13. In a place like this everybody's private affairs are more or less public property.
14. I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors.
15. Has it ever occurred to you how much we go by what is called, I believe, the context? ... So when we repeat a conversation, we don't, as a rule, repeat the actual words; we put in some other words that seem to us to mean exactly the same thing.
16. It was one of the most vicious laughs I have ever heard. I can assure you it made my flesh creep.
17. The most nervous people are far more brave than one really thinks they are.
18. Of course, a lot of people are stupid. And stupid people get found out, whatever they do. But there are quite a number of people who aren't stupid, and one shudders to think of what they might accomplish unless they had very strongly rooted principles.
19. Beauty is perhaps a dangerous possession.
20. Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realize it.

from Agatha Christie

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