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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
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Dramaturge
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.
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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well
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I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.
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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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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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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
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There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.
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Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
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Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.
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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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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
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No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
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The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.
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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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Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
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These little grey cells. It is up to them.
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Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.
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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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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.
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