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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?
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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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe! M. Poirot are you quite mad? No, I am extremely sane.
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The first time you do a thing is always exciting.
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Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.
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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
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With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.
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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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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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If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
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I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
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It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
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What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
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The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.
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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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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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You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.
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