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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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... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
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There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.
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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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Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
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Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
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In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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I am all that there is of the most real.
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
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Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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