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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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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 woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.
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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
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I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
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Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.
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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.
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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.
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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
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Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.
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I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.
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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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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
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