It is not the past that matters but the future.
It is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.
If you do – evil will come… Yes, very surely evil will come… It will enter in and make its home within you, and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out.
If only you have sufficiently extravagant tastes, and absolutely no sense of money values, people will give you any amount of credit.
All detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again.
A man doesn’t want to feel that a woman cares more for him than he does for her. He doesn’t want to feel owned, body and soul. It’s the damned possessive attitude! This man is mine – he belongs to me! That’s the sort of thing I can’t stick – no man could stick! He wants to get away – to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn’t want her to own him.