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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
Autobiographer
Dramaturge
Novelist
Nurse
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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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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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
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a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.
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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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Poirot, I said. I have been thinking. An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.
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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
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... nothing is so boring as devotion.
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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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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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there is evil everywhere under the sun.
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Hate doesn't last. Love does.
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