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Plymouth, Gwenda thought, as she moved forward obediently in the queu for Passports and Customs, was probably not the best of England.
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And, of course, afterwards — one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before — we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!
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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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You agree — I'm sure you agree, that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined—sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured—so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
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I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.
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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.
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The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.
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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.
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Mon ami, if you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs. That is all I have done.
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Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guesswork over logic.
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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
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Exactly! It is absurd — improbable — it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.
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A dog, said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.
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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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You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
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Mademoiselle, I said, it is sometimes difficult for a dog to find a scent, but once he has found it, nothing on earth will make him leave it! That is if he is a good dog! And I, mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, am a very good dog.
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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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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.
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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
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Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right!
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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.
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Last time I had my hands on you, you felt like a bird - struggling to escape. You'll never escape now...
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Agatha Christie
Born:
September 15, 1890
Died:
January 12, 1976
(aged 85)
Bio:
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright.
Known for:
And Then There Were None (1939)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
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