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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -The Blood-Stained Pavement
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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Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
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It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.
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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.
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One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.
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One little Indian boy left all alone He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
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I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.
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Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
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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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What's wrong with my proposition? Poirot rose. If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
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Look here, I said, people like to collect disasters.
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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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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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
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Desperate ills need desperate remedies.
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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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The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.
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