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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
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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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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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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He laughs best who laughs at the end.
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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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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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No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
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Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.
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I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.
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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
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