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... nothing is so boring as devotion.

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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
Devotion
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Very few of us are what we seem.
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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's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.
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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
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... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.
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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.
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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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If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.
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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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I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.
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Everybody said, Follow your heart. I did, it got broken
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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without. ~ Poirot
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Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
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There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot
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