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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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inspirational
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4362b53
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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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Agatha Christie |
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Very few of us are what we seem.
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Agatha Christie |
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0d043b6
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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Agatha Christie |
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Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it."
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thinking
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Agatha Christie |
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1f36519
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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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Agatha Christie |
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Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon; One said he'd stay there and then there were seven. Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six. Six little Indian boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stun..
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Agatha Christie |
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1d59b9e
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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
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Agatha Christie |
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0a33301
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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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simplicity-imagination
occams-razor
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Agatha Christie |
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918e810
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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
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Agatha Christie |
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7fddb7d
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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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Agatha Christie |
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b843cb6
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Never tell all you know--not even to the person you know best.
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Agatha Christie |
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1b1bb02
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The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
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Agatha Christie |
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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
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Agatha Christie |
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1bddea7
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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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Agatha Christie |
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64a957c
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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.
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betrayal
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Agatha Christie |
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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
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bookstore
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Agatha Christie |
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72507b6
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Agatha Christie |
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3681dca
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In the midst of life, we are in death.
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life
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Agatha Christie |
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f2b4f60
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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
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errors
technology
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Agatha Christie |
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6e6cd6c
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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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scientific-method
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Agatha Christie |
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ace5131
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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laziness
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Agatha Christie |
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9080df3
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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inspirational
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Agatha Christie |
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797615f
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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
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lovers
humour
love
sheep
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Agatha Christie |
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946cf45
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Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
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Agatha Christie |
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7bc06ba
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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
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Agatha Christie |
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78a8387
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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
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Agatha Christie |
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c31fe19
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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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learning
homeschool
homeschooling
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Agatha Christie |
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1e5a187
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But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
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Agatha Christie |
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0e4d2c4
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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the to kill-though not the to kill.
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Agatha Christie |
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3ee2968
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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
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Agatha Christie |
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f4e7337
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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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Agatha Christie |
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d36bf02
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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.
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writing
professionalism
creative-process
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Agatha Christie |
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6cab6fe
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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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Agatha Christie |
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9c44bb6
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Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know."
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Agatha Christie |
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a368482
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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
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Agatha Christie |
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b1a9479
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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
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Agatha Christie |
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41834b5
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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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Agatha Christie |
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446e14f
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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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Agatha Christie |
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935358e
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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
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Agatha Christie |
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a137c61
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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explanations
weakness
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Agatha Christie |
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2079e24
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No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
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humor
the-patriotic-murders
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Agatha Christie |
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c36760f
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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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Agatha Christie |
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caecda4
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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
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thoughts
humour
hypocrisy
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