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Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
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Dramaturge
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Playwright
Poet
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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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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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
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Look here, I said, people like to collect disasters.
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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without. ~ Poirot
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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.
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These little grey cells. It is up to them.
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Desperate ills need desperate remedies.
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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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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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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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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.
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Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
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It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
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And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!
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