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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
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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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.
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I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
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I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.
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These little grey cells. It is up to them.
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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
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I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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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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Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?
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I'm not often bored,' I assured her. Life's not long enough for that.
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Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
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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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Talk and tea is his specialty, said Giles. He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.
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Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.
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There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.
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