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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
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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Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.
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It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.
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I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.
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Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.
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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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If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.
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I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.
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It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.
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I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.
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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
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... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
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