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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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
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You've a pretty good nerve, said Ratchett. Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you? It will not. If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me. I, also M. Ratchett. What's wrong with my proposition? Poirot rose. If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett,
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And yet, said Poirot, suppose an accident- Ah, no, my friend- From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.
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I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.
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If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!
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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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there is evil everywhere under the sun.
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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
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if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.
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Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.
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