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Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
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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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
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In the midst of life, we are in death.
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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.
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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
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What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.
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Things never come when they are expected.
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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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I am all that there is of the most real.
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Very few of us are what we seem.
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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
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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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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
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One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.
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