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• Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

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  Elephants, Remember, Forget

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• A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

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  Men, Mad, Knows

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Secret Adversary (Diversion Classics)”, p.276, Diversion Books

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• My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

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  Sound, Hercule Poirot, Remarks

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Hercule Poirot's casebook”, Putnam Adult

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• People who can be very good can be very bad too.

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  People, Very Good

  Marie Waife-Goldberg, Agatha Christie (1980). “My Father, Sholom Aleichem”, Pocket

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• Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

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  Men, Aunt, Should Have

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• One does what one can, not what one cannot.

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  Life, Inspirational Life, Doe

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• Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

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  Knives, Shining, Confusing

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

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  Past, Gold, Daggers

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

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• At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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  Worst, My Time, Knows

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

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  Childhood, Away From You, Happy Childhood

  Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”

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• There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

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  Men, Evil, Missing

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

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• There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own. ~Mr. Aristides

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  Beautiful, Passion, Hair

  Agatha Christie (1987). “Destination unknown”

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• If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

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  Thinking, Past, Alive

  Agatha Christie (1972). “Hercule Poirot's Christmas”

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• I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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  Cheer, Book, Murder

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• You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

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  Dream, Loneliness, Home

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• marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

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  Children, Judging, Doubt

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Poirot)”, p.30, HarperCollins UK

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• If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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  Careers, Missing, Deceit

  Agatha Christie (1967). “Murder in our midst”

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• a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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  Men, Weakness, Excuse

  Agatha Christie (1959). “Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence”

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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.

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  Simple, Race, Want

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Endless Night”, p.25, HarperCollins UK

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• Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

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  Christian, Mother, Princess

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• Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

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  Kindness, Real, Mean

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• It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

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  Thinking, Skills, Ideas

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

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• Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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  Encouragement, Needs, Need Encouragement

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

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  World, Wonder, Generalisation

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• I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

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  Girl, Sex, Sorry

  "Postmark: Murder".

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