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Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way around. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
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Darling, she drawled, won't that be rather tiresome? If any misfortunes happen to my friends I always drop them at once! It sounds heartless, but it saves such a lot of trouble later!
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To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.
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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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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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Where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around — seeking always something that is not very nice.
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You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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The English are very stupid, said Poirot. They think that they can deceive anyone but that no one can deceive them.
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But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method — a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence!
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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement
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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
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"Nothing", I said sadly. "They are two delightful women!" "And neither of them is for you?" finished Poirot. "Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?"
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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
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Well, of course, Gwenda dear, you can always do that when you've exhausted every other line of approach, but I always think myself it's better to examine the simplest and most commonplace explanations first.
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The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist.
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Oh, dear, it's quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase... Like the one M. Poirot used. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate... Something like that.
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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...
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All women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.
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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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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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