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I suppose next time I come home I shall find you wearing false moustaches--or are you doing so now?' Poirot winced. His moustaches had always been his sensitive point. He was inordinately proud of them. My words touched him on the raw. 'No, no, indeed, mon ami. That day, I pray the good God, is still far off. The false moustaches! Quelle Horreur!' He tugged at them vigorously to assure me of their genuine character. 'Well, they are very..
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But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn. "She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed. "Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette."
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poirot
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Agatha Christie |
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2230eb6
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Death was for-the other people.
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Agatha Christie |
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dc4e4c5
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I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back--that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn't it?
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Agatha Christie |
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Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage." "To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does." "Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage."
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Agatha Christie |
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64a6757
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There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.
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Agatha Christie |
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87628f6
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I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.
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Agatha Christie |
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The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.
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poirot
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Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.
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Agatha Christie |
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He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so - he died." "Because he was stupid?" "It is the sin that is never forgiven and always punished, madame."
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Agatha Christie |
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I mean, what you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all." ~ Mrs. Oliver"
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writing-life
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Mademoiselle, I beseech you, do not do what you are doing." "Leave dear Linnet alone, you mean!" "It is deeper than that. Do not open your heart to evil." Her lips fell apart; a look of bewilderment came into her eyes. Poirot went on gravely: "Because--if you do--evil will come...Yes, very surely evil will come...It will enter in and make its home within you, and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out." --
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Agatha Christie |
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Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money--or the lack of it.
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Agatha Christie |
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c7602de
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This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.
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Agatha Christie |
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Because when you're in love, you think you're invincible. It blinds you. And you don't seem to care.
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Agatha Christie |
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the truth is never horrible, only interesting.
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Agatha Christie |
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5cb915f
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No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Agatha Christie |
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Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.
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Agatha Christie |
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Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.
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humor
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Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better - who are undeveloped - who are to be pitied rather than blamed. But, M. Poirot, evil is real! It is a fact! I believe in Evil as I believe in Good. It exists! It is powerful! It walks the earth!' He stopped. His breath was coming fast. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked suddenly ap..
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Agatha Christie |
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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
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Agatha Christie |
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I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.
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Agatha Christie |
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Put that in your mustache and smoke it.
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funny
humor
mrs-oliver
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The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
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reading
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Agatha Christie |
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Do you not realize, Hastings, that each and everyone of us is a complete mystery with layers. We each try to judge each other, but nine times out of ten, we are wrong.
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Agatha Christie |
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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
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railroad
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Agatha Christie |
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Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.
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Agatha Christie |
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The rottenness comes from within.
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Agatha Christie |
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The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.
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Agatha Christie |
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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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Agatha Christie |
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Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don't you?" "Of course I believe in the truth," said Rhoda, staring. "Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven't thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes - and destroys one's illusions." "I'd rather have it all the same." said Rhoda. "So would I. But I don't know that we're wise." Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes"
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truth
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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.
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Agatha Christie |
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If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.
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Agatha Christie |
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When will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself. Usually for the man she loves. Always for her children.
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Agatha Christie |
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Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.
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youth
foolishness
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Agatha Christie |
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I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been
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blue-train
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Agatha Christie |
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Ulick Norman Owen--Una Nancy Owen--each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!
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Agatha Christie |
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Underneath the quarrels,the misunderstandings, the apparent hostility of everyday life, a real and true affection can exist. Married life, I mused, as I went to bed, was a curious thing.
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Agatha Christie |
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What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me."
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Agatha Christie |
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There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly. Poirot said drily: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!"
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Agatha Christie |
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It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!
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Agatha Christie |
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How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.
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Agatha Christie |
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The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
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