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Agatha Christie Inspirational Quotes (363)

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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
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I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.
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I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.
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You'll be glad too, when the end comes.
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Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.
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You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.
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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.
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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.
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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.
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Bottled, was he? Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
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If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.
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One does what one can, not what one cannot.
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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?
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There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot
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Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
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The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.
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