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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

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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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the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.
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To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.
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Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.
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No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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People who can be very good can be very bad too.
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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
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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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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
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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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I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.
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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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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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Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'
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Poirot, I said. I have been thinking. An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
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Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.
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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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A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)
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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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