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Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
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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I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.
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The past is the father of the present.
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
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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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