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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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Agatha Christie |
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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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Agatha Christie |
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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Agatha Christie |
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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
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Agatha Christie |
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The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....
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Agatha Christie |
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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said."
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murder
fiction
express
orient
hercule
poirot
detective
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Agatha Christie |
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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.
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Agatha Christie |
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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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Agatha Christie |
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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
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money
wealth
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Agatha Christie |
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It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
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Agatha Christie |
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c52d088
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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.
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intuition
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Agatha Christie |
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One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
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suicide
nursery-rhyme
rhyme
mystery
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Agatha Christie |
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I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.
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Agatha Christie |
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I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.
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mystery
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Agatha Christie |
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You should employ your little grey cells
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Agatha Christie |
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Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]
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Agatha Christie |
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A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.
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Agatha Christie |
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Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else." "Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality."
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reality
love
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Agatha Christie |
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It's what's in that makes you happy or unhappy.
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inspirational
miss-marple
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Agatha Christie |
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It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." "Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant." --
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theory
fact
mystery
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Agatha Christie |
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a13c3dc
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One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.
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Agatha Christie |
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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
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Agatha Christie |
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Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
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Agatha Christie |
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At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.
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murder
fiction
express
orient
hercule
poirot
detective
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845eaed
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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
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Agatha Christie |
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c3994e5
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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.
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Agatha Christie |
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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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Agatha Christie |
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Fear is incomplete knowledge
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Agatha Christie |
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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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Agatha Christie |
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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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Agatha Christie |
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What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett."
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Agatha Christie |
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People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in that makes you happy or unhappy.
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inspirational
miss-marple
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Agatha Christie |
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Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
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Agatha Christie |
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It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
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observation
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Agatha Christie |
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He laughs best who laughs at the end.
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Agatha Christie |
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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...
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Agatha Christie |
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To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..
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Agatha Christie |
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I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language."
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humor
englishman
language
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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes-they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.
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Agatha Christie |
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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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Agatha Christie |
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Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with his poisoned cocktail! Anyone might have drunk it! It might have been me!" "There is an even more terrible possibility that you have not considered," said Poirot. "Eh?" "It might have been me," said Hercule Poirot."
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humor
poirot
hercule-poirot
mystery
poison
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Agatha Christie |
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And then there were none.
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Agatha Christie |
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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Agatha Christie |
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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Agatha Christie |