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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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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
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I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?
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the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.
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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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It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
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Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!
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I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.
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No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
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Hate doesn't last. Love does.
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The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.
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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.
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I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.
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Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?
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too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.
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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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