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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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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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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.
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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
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I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?
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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'
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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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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.
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too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.
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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without. ~ Poirot
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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.
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You should employ your little grey cells.
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I admit, I said, that a second murder in a book often cheers things up. - Hastings
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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
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Things never come when they are expected.
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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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