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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.

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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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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The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.
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Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
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But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.
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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
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The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.
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there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
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In the midst of life, we are in death.
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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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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.
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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.
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To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]
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Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.
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Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
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