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Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [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
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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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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
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Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
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a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.
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how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
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Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.
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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.
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there is evil everywhere under the sun.
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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
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Talk and tea is his specialty, said Giles. He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.
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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
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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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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
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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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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
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And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.
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