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Books are a habit-forming drug.

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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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
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Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
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When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
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I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.
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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
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One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
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I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.
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