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Ability
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
-Agatha Christie
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Age
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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
-Agatha Christie
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
-Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
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Authors & Writing
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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.
-Agatha Christie
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Character
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
-Agatha Christie
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Conversation
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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
-Agatha Christie
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Crime
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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.
-Agatha Christie
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Death
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
-Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
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Friends
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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
-Agatha Christie
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Habits
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
-Agatha Christie
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Laziness
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
-Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
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Life
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
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Marriage
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An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
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Value
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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
-Agatha Christie
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War
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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.
-Agatha Christie
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Work
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
-Agatha Christie, Endless Night bk. 1 ch. 1, 1967
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