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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
Autobiographer
Dramaturge
Novelist
Nurse
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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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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I'm not often bored,' I assured her. Life's not long enough for that.
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Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.
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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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... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.
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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
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there is evil everywhere under the sun.
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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.
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Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
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Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.
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all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
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Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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