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661e536
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Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.
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Agatha Christie |
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6406f7c
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Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way." - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167"
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human-nature
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Agatha Christie |
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8820843
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They say all the world loves a lover--apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.
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Agatha Christie |
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5a7a158
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They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!
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Agatha Christie |
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ca9cc91
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Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner.
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humor
poirot
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Agatha Christie |
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f20df3a
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What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after fort..
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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.
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politics
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Agatha Christie |
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a9ccaf1
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It is not the past that matters,but the future
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Agatha Christie |
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c2c6c0f
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I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind - Lord Mayfield
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Agatha Christie |
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5076d18
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To be part of something one doesn't in the least understand is, I think, one of the most intriguing things about life.
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Agatha Christie |
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164a93b
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Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple
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Agatha Christie |
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4514818
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Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child? Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.
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poirot
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Edna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine. Its painstaking eroticism left her uninterested--as indeed it did most of Mr. Levine's readers, in spite of his efforts. He was a notable example of the fact that nothing can be duller than dull pornography.
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humour
pornography
sarcasm
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Agatha Christie |
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92ac5c7
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It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.
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Agatha Christie |
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573d0da
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With a shock Iris realized suddenly that it was the first time in her life she had ever thought about Rosemary. Thought about her, that is, objectively, as a person. She had always accepted Rosemary without thinking about her. You didn't think about your mother or your father or your sister or your aunt. They just existed, unquestioned, in those relationships. You didn't think about them as people. You didn't ask yourself, even, what they w..
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Agatha Christie |
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75fec0f
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Go away where you're loved and taken care of and looked after.
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Agatha Christie |
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5c90f15
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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.
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life-and-living
life-philosophy
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71a28e0
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Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity.
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Agatha Christie |
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dd29bb0
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What are you doing, Poirot?" "I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting."
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Agatha Christie |
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a45997e
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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
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succcess
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Agatha Christie |
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82a629c
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I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum: 'Away with softness.'" I thought of Hercule Poirot's words. "I'm content," I said, "to be human...." We sat there in silence, each of use convinced that the other's point of view was wrong."
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human
disagreement
lenin
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Agatha Christie |
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20c4dd0
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It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing!
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perfection
murder
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Agatha Christie |
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0ef2f0f
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those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.
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Agatha Christie |
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696e8e1
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I enrage myself with an imbecile. I say, 'I would like to kick him.' Instead I kick the table. I say, 'This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so.
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humor
hercule-poirot
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Agatha Christie |
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1bc8254
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Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.
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life
time-lapse
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Agatha Christie |
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3a3af62
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Will you pour out tea, Miss Brent?' The elder woman replied: 'No, you do it, dear. That tea- pot is so heavy. And I have lost two skeins of my grey knitting- wool. So annoying.' Vera moved to the tea- table. There was a cheerful rattle and clink of china. Normality returned. Tea! Blessed ordinary everyday afternoon tea! Philip Lombard made a cheery remark. Blore responded. Dr. Armstrong told a humorous story. Mr. Justice Wargrave, who ordin..
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Agatha Christie |
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And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her--a sense of the loveliness of the world--of her own intense enjoyment of that world.
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Agatha Christie |
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c7e25e9
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The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.
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Agatha Christie |
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7efefdb
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Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.
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Agatha Christie |
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8ef3815
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Poirot sighed. He said "The world is yours, the new heaven and the new earth. In your new world, my children, let there be freedom, and let there be pity. That is all I ask."
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Agatha Christie |
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18a2647
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Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!"
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five-little-pigs
hercule-poirot
the-best
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Agatha Christie |
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fb71d1b
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Murder, you see, is an amateur crime... One feels, very often, as though these nice ordinary chaps, had been overtaken, as it were, by murder, almost accidentally. They've been in a tight place, or they've wanted something very badly, money or a woman - and they've killed to get it. The brake that operates with most of us doesn't operate with them... They continue to be aware that murder is wrong, but they do not feel it. I don't think, in ..
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Agatha Christie |
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4bb7abf
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Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.
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thinking
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Agatha Christie |
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09cab4b
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I've never met a murderer who wasn't vain... It's their vanity that leads to their undoing, nine times out of ten.They may be frightened of being caught, but they can't help strutting and boasting and usually they're sure they've been far too clever to be caught.
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Agatha Christie |
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0bac416
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Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.
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Agatha Christie |
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221bf62
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To see ourselves as others see us!
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Agatha Christie |
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4615c6c
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I daresay idle tittle-tattle is very wrong and unkind, but it is so often true, isn't it.
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Agatha Christie |
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1ef7b33
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There's no doubt about what the man's profession has been. He's a retired hairdresser. Look at that moustache of his.
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Agatha Christie |
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1a9b652
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With women, love always comes first.
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Agatha Christie |
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61c4800
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Guy Pagett is my secretary, a zealous, painstaking, hardworking fellow, admirable in every respect. I know no one who annoys me more. For a long time I have been racking my brains as to how to get rid of him. But you cannot very well dismiss a secretary because he prefers work to play, likes getting up early in the morning, and has positively no vices. The only amusing thing about the fellow is his face. He has the face of a fourteenth-cent..
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Agatha Christie |
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5b6997a
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It was on the fourth day that the stewardess finally urged me up on deck. Under the impression that I should die quicker below, I had steadfastly refused to leave my bunk. She now tempted me with the advent of Madeira. Hope rose in my breast. I could leave the boat and go ashore and be a parlourmaid there. Anything for dry land.
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Agatha Christie |
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5be4890
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She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.
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Agatha Christie |
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ec09a4c
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The Beddingfeld girl was deep in conversation with the missionary parson, Chichester. Women always flutter round parsons.
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Agatha Christie |
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0af13d4
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Suzanne likes thrills, but she hates being uncomfortable.
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Agatha Christie |