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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

Agatha Christie

It's so dreadfully easy—killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter… That it's only you that matters! It's dangerous—that.

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It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

Agatha Christie

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

Agatha Christie

Yes. I like to see people get angry. I like it very much. But here in England they do not get angry like they do in Spain. In Spain they take out their knives and they curse and shout. In England they do nothing, just get very red in the face and shut up their mouths tight.

Agatha Christie

I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what I have done is justified or not justified. No — I do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, I am the law! As a young man in the Belgian police force I shot down a desperate criminal who sat on a roof and fired at people below. In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.

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