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Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.
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No, doctor, I'm going to London. If things happen anywhere, they happen in London.
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Agatha Christie |
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Having adventures," I replied. "Episode III of 'The Perils of Pamela.' " I told her the whole story. She gave vent to a deep sigh when I finished. "Why do these things always happen to you?" she demanded plaintively. "Why does no one gag me and bind me hand and foot?" "You wouldn't like it if they did," I assured her. "To tell you the truth, I'm not nearly so keen on having adventures myself as I was. A little of that sort of thing goes a l..
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But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.
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I objected vigorously to this unsporting proposal. I recognized in it the disastrous effects of matrimony. How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female say, in the tone of one clinching an argument, "Edgar says--" And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool. Suzanne, by reason of her married state, was yearning to lean upon some man or other."
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6d400cb
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A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men.
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Agatha Christie |
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619517c
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I walked into Cartwright's and ordered two coffee ice cream sodas--to steady my nerves. A man, I suppose, would have had a stiff peg; but girls derive a lot of comfort from ice cream sodas. I applied myself to the end of the straw with gusto. The cool liquid went trickling down my throat in the most agreeable manner. I pushed the first glass aside empty.
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223a8fe
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It was very like a dream. Like all dreamers, however, I could not let my dream alone. We poor humans are so anxious not to miss anything.
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Agatha Christie |
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0c8c226
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Several very suprising things have occurred. To begin with, I met Augustus Milray, the most perfect example of an old ass the present Government has produced. His manner oozed diplomatic secrecy as he drew me aside in the Club into a quiet corner.
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Agatha Christie |
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dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But nobody relishes the process.
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Men are so superior about their Latin," said Mrs. Blair. "But all the same I notice that when you ask them to translate inscriptions in old churches, they can never do it! They hem and haw, and get out of it somehow."
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We never seemed to have any money. His celebrity was not of the kind that brought in a cash return. Although he was a fellow of almost every important society and had rows of letters after his name, the general public scarcely knew of his existence, and his long-learned books, though adding signally to the sum total of human knowledge, had no attraction for the masses.
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Agatha Christie |
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I reflected a minute and then asked why he wanted to marry me. That seemed to fluster him a good deal, and he murmured that a wife was a great help to a general practitioner. The position seemed even more unromantic than before, and yet something in me urged towards its acceptance. Safety, that was what I was being offered. Safety--and a Comfortable Home. Thinking it over now, I believe I did the little man an injustice. He was honestly in ..
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He was tall and broad-shouldered, wore a dark overcoat and black boots, a bowler hat. He had a dark-pointed beard and gold-rimmed eyeglasses." "Take away the overcoat, the beard and the eyeglasses, and there wouldn't be much to know him by," grumbled the inspector. "He could alter his appearance easily enough in five minutes if he wanted to--which he would do if he's the swell pickpocket you suggest." I had not intended to suggest anything ..
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Because of his face." "His face? But--" "Yes, I know what you're going to say. It's a sinister face. That's just it. No man with a face like that could be really sinister. It must be a colossal joke on the part of Nature."
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Agatha Christie |
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He's like all the rest of these people; they make inflammatory speeches of enormous length, solely for political purposes, and then wish they hadn't.
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What was this passion that attacked women for knitting under the most unpropitious conditions? A woman did not look her best knitting; the absorption, the glassy eyes, the restless, busy fingers! One needed the agility of a wild cat, and the will-power of a Napoleon to manage to knit in a crowded tube, but women managed it! If they succeeded in obtaining a seat, out came a miserable little strip of shrimp pink and click, click went the pins..
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Lord Cronshaw's party consisted of six people: he himself, his uncle, the Honourable Eustace Beltane, a pretty American widow, Mrs. Mallaby, a young actor, Chris Davidson, his wife, and last but not least, Miss Coco Courtenay. It was a fancy dress ball, as you know, and
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Not a look, not a gesture of Valerie Saintclair's but expressed drama. She seemed to exhale an atmosphere of romance. A scarlet flannel dressing gown covered her feet--a homely garment in all conscience; but the charm of her personality invested it with an exotic flavour, and it seemed an Eastern robe of glowing colour.
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You know I want you. You know that I'd give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever.
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romance
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Caroline is the lady who cooks for me. Incidentally she is the wife of my gardener. What kind of a wife she makes I do not know, but she is an excellent cook. James, on the other hand, is not a good gardener--but I support him in idleness and give him the lodge to live in solely on account of Caroline's cooking.
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I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first.
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I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry," answered Father Brown. "The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person."
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Agatha Christie |
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'nt t`tqd 'nk t`jb blmyzt lkhlqy@ wlkn `ndm tq` fy lHb f'nt t`wd l~ fTrtk lbdy'y@ Hyth tkwn lqw@ ljsdy@ hy lmfDl@
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Papa always said that in the beginning men and women roamed the world together, equal in strength - like lions and tigers -" "And giraffes?" interpolated Colonel Race slyly. I laughed. Everyone makes fun of that giraffe. "And giraffes. They were nomadic, you see. It wasn't till they settled down in communities, and women did one kind of thing and men another, that women got weak. And of course, underneath, one is still the same - one feels ..
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n l`shq ytshjrwn dy'man l'nhm l yfhmwn b`Dhm, w`ndm y'ty lwqt ldhy yfhmwn fyh b`Dhm fnhm yfqdwn Hbhm
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'tmn~ lw kn nstTy` 'n nt'kd mn 'n lns ldhyn yqtlwn hm mn ystHqwn lmwt, 'qSd hw'l ldhyn yrydwn lqtl wlys fqT lmskyn ldhyn y`yshwn fy lmnTq lty ydwr fyh lqtl
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Don't hiss at me, Pagett," I said, drawing back a little, "and do control your breathing. Your idea is absurd. Why should they want to have a secret meeting in the middle of the night? If they'd anything to say to each other, they could hobnob over beef tea in a perfectly casual and natural manner."
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They fear me, Hastings; the criminals of your England they fear me! When the cat is there, the little mice, they come no more to the cheese!" "I don't suppose the greater part of them even know of your existence," I said, laughing. Poirot looked at me reproachfully. He always imagines that the whole world is thinking and talking of Hercule Poirot. He had certainly made a name for himself in London, but I could hardly believe that his existe..
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gorilla
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A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to his country, but he has at the same time to recognize the force of popular feeling. Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddleheaded, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that." "How"
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How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be." "That"
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Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
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Agatha Christie |
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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Agatha Christie |
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Blood tells -- always remember that -- blood tells.
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Agatha Christie |
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Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.
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Agatha Christie |
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23ae783
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Tcha! Tcha!" cried Poirot irritably. "You argue like a child."
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Agatha Christie |
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Now there is no murder without a motive.
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Agatha Christie |
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b98f4e8
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Two is enough for a secret.
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Agatha Christie |
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6d50cc1
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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.
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Agatha Christie |
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It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved," she explained.
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Agatha Christie |
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Me, I am convinced it is the truth," said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.
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There is no such thing as muddle -- obscurity, yes -- but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain.
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