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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

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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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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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
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To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.
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Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
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To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]
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I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
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Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
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Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!
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There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
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