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It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

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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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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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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.
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A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.
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I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.
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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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