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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
Autobiographer
Dramaturge
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
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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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I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.
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One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.
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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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I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.
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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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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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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
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I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.
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No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
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Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
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