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One does what one can, not what one cannot.
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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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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Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
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Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.
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You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
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The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.
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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
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People who can be very good can be very bad too.
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We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.
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The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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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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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.
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Everybody said, Follow your heart. I did, it got broken
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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.
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I'm not often bored,' I assured her. Life's not long enough for that.
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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?
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