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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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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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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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I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.
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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety sanctification gives us the second - soundness.
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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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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
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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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These little grey cells. It is up to them.
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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
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