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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
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.
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I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.
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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 simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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The past is the father of the present.
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Poirot, I said. I have been thinking. An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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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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Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
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In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.
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Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.
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One little Indian boy left all alone He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
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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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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
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Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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