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The rottenness comes from within.
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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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.
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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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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.
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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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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.
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I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.
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Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.
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Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.
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Everybody said, Follow your heart. I did, it got broken
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