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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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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
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The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.
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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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Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.
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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
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You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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I admit, I said, that a second murder in a book often cheers things up. - Hastings
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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.
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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
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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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Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.
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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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