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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
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It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!
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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.
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The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.
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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.
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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
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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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No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.
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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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