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b5c5b8e
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One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.
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Agatha Christie |
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2091d96
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In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
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Agatha Christie |
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5c210b0
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My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
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Agatha Christie |
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404ffc3
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Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound. Yet this quaint dandyfied little man who, I was..
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Agatha Christie |
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c576570
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That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.
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Agatha Christie |
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bb961dd
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No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't tell a soul.' 'People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it.
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Agatha Christie |
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3569e8e
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The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.
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Agatha Christie |
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c950ab7
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Truth is seldom romantic.
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Agatha Christie |
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ed6c4ef
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It would mean a good film, the story that you have recounted to me there - but it bears no sort of resemblance to everyday life.' 'I admit that I haven't gone into all the details, but-' 'You have gone farther - you have ignored them magnificently.
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Agatha Christie |
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a82ae38
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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
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work
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Agatha Christie |
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4136a05
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In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)
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Agatha Christie |
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f042d22
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What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.
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murder-mystery
things-that-cannot-be-bought
five-little-pigs
hercule-poirot
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Agatha Christie |
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c4c566e
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She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!" The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: "My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts."
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relegion
punishment
justice
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Agatha Christie |
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3017c32
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Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
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Agatha Christie |
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e209332
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There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good.
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humorous
moustaches
mustaches
poirot
hercule-poirot
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Agatha Christie |
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46f8c95
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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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750ca93
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And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death."
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murder
death
murder-on-the-orient-express
myserty
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Agatha Christie |
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879eab1
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Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
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Agatha Christie |
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a5befa5
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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane."
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Agatha Christie |
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9874c4c
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I know when a couple are really in love with each other. And by that I do not mean just sexually attracted. There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love, but cannot succeed by itself.
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Agatha Christie |
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161fb21
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He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot stared at it, pale and upset. "It was a near thing that! But clumsy, all the same - for I had no suspicion - at least hardly any suspicion. Yes, but for my quick eyes, the eyes of a cat, Hercule Poirot might now be crushed out of existence - a terrible calamity for the world. And you, too, mon ami - though that would not be such a nation..
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humorous
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Agatha Christie |
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fc21bf1
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Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman-probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.
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Agatha Christie |
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47aae5a
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If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go
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Agatha Christie |
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ee12e07
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I demand of you a thousand pardons, monsieur. I am without defence. For some months now I cultivate the marrows. This morning suddenly I enrage myself with these marrows. I send them to promenade themselves - alas! not only mentally but physically. I seize the biggest. I hurl him over the wall. Monsieur, I am ashamed. I prostrate myself.
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Agatha Christie |
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4c323a5
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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.
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Agatha Christie |
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6bd3a49
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Diez negritos se fueron a cenar; uno se asfixio y quedaron nueve. Nueve negritos estuvieron despiertos hasta muy tarde; uno se quedo dormido y entonces quedaron ocho. Ocho negritos viajaron por Devon; uno dijo que se quedaria alli y quedaron siete. Siete negritos cortaron lena; uno se corto en dos y quedaron seis. Seis negritos jugaron con una colmena; una abeja pico a uno de ellos y quedaron cinco. Cinco negritos estudiaron Derecho; uno se..
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spanish
agatha-christie
christie
diez
diez-negritos
español
negritos
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Agatha Christie |
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9b32d63
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It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been very much present in your mind during that period.
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Agatha Christie |
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738f92d
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If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.
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Agatha Christie |
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bc04a09
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Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple
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Agatha Christie |
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b35cd48
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Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before."
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foreshadow
poirot
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Agatha Christie |
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d6f3c9e
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I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.
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poirot
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Agatha Christie |
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a0fd647
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A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people--but not one's own.
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Agatha Christie |
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6badede
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Ladies and Gentlemen! Silence please!" Every one was startled. They looked round-at each other, at the walls. Who was speaking? The Voice went on- a high clear voice. You are charged with the following indictments: Edward George Armstrong, that you did upon the 14th day of March, 1925, cause the death of Louisa Mary Clees. Emily Caroline Brent, that upon the 5th November, 1931, you were responsible for the death of Beatrice Taylor. William ..
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murders
namesake
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Agatha Christie |
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7dc74c3
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Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age. My poor friend. I have described him many times. Now to convey to you the difference. Crippled with arthritis, he propelled himself about in a wheelchair. His once plump frame had fallen in. He was a thin little man now. His face was lined and wrinkled. His moustache and hair, and hair, it is true, were still of a jet black colour, but candidly, though I would not for the..
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Agatha Christie |
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c5fd284
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Why didn't they ask the Evans?
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murder
last-words
why
mystery
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Agatha Christie |
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356a940
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Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding.
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Agatha Christie |
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525dce5
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Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased... There is a great charity always to the dead.
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Agatha Christie |
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51b9ad9
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My friend, in working upon a case, one does not take into account only the things that are "mentioned". There is no reason to mention many things which may be important. Equally, there is often an excellent reason for not mentioning them."
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Agatha Christie |
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4dd0ee1
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Handsome, strong, gay ... She felt again the thro and lilt of her blood. She had loved Kameni in that moment. She loved him now. Kameni could take the place that Khay had held in her life. She thought: 'We shall be happy together - yes, we shall be happy. We shall live together and take pleasure in each other and we shall have strong, handsome children. There will be busy days full of work ... and days of pleasure when we sail on the River..
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Agatha Christie |
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aeea8c4
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I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
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Agatha Christie |
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82831b5
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Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten.
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work
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Agatha Christie |
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a251026
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Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.
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the-why
why
murder-mystery
five-little-pigs
hercule-poirot
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Agatha Christie |
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fef85e7
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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."
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honesty
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Agatha Christie |
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0940a3f
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You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine Producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally unimportant, a mere walking-on part, but upon it may hang the issues of the play if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a per..
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life
importance-of-existence
role
play
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Agatha Christie |