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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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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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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how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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