English - Writer | September 15, 1890 - January 12, 1976
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
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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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
SympathyAliveKnowSometimesSorrow
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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The popular idea 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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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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