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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
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.
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And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
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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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There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.
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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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With method and logic one can accomplish anything.
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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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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
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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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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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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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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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