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In the midst of life, we are in death.

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
Autobiographer
Dramaturge
Novelist
Nurse
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.
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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.
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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.
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The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.
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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
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It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!
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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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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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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
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It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.
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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
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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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Everybody always knows something, said Adam, even if it's something they don't know they know.
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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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It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
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Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
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