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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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Hate doesn't last. Love does.
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You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.
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In the midst of life, we are in death.
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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
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Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
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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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how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
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Things never come when they are expected.
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Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
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Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
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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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The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety sanctification gives us the second - soundness.
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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!
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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
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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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