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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
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
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
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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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fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
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You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!
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Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.
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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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Life itself is an unsolved mystery, said the clergyman gravely.
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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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