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In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (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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marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.
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I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.
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Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
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Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.
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I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!
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there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
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