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Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

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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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It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.
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The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
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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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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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You should employ your little grey cells.
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You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
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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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One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.
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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.
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He laughs best who laughs at the end.
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if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.
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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.
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Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.
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With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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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 believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
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