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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well
Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.
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People should be interested in books, not their authors.
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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.
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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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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.
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too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.
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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
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a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.
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I am all that there is of the most real.
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