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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Agatha Christie

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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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how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.
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you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
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... obsessions are always dangerous.
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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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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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The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
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I am all that there is of the most real.
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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