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• It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. 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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  People, Wiping Out, Detective Work

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Death on the Nile”, HarperCollins Publishers

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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.

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  Death, Waiting, Dying

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

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  Skins, Married, Ifs

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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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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  Answers, Asks

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Moving Finger (Miss Marple)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

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  Reflection, Things In Life, Remember

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• You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

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  Fighting, Age, Fighter

  Agatha Christie (1965). “Poirot loses a client”, Dell Pub Co

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• The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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  Inspirational, Life, Impossible

  "No one should condescend to Agatha Christie - she's a genius" by Sophie Hannah, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2015.

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• Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

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  Order, Life Is Like, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Sad cypress”

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• fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

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  Thinking, People, Fiction

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• The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

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  Firsts, First Time, Exciting

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

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  Long, Mind, Harmony

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• You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

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  Healing, Want, Said

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Hallowe'en party”, Pocket

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• Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

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  Thinking, Needs, Deals

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• One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

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  Midst, Moron

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

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  Character, Men, Feet

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Taken at the flood”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

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  Death Coming, Afraid Of Death

  Agatha Christie (1966). “And Then There Were None”

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• Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

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  Youth, Failing

  Agatha Christie “Annotated The Secret Adversary with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I am all that there is of the most real.

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  Real

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Third Girl (Poirot)”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

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• Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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  Funny Friend, Old Friends, Literature

  Agatha Christie “Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

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  Passion, Dark, Desire

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Lord Edgware Dies”, Berkley

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• It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

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  Romance, Mystery, Remove

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• There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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  Men, Umpires, Evil

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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  Children, Past, Views

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

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  Anger, Safety, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1951). “The Under Dog: And Other Stories”, New York, Dodd, Mead [1951

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• For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

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  Running, Lying, Long

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1953). “FUNERALS ARE FATAL”

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