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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
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... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.
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One does what one can, not what one cannot.
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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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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.
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Everybody always knows something, said Adam, even if it's something they don't know they know.
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Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.
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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.
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With method and logic one can accomplish anything.
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
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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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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
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