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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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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.
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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
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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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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
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If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.
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I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.
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But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.
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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
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And yet, said Poirot, suppose an accident- Ah, no, my friend- From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.
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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.
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I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: I do not know...
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These little grey cells. It is up to them.
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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.
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