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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it ha...
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There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of he...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).
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Jane Heard.
ONE
I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas presen...
KIMBERLEY NIXON
Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually...
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Basically, it's a play being written right before your eyes -- sort of. The premise is that a retiri...
JANE MODLIN
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reade...
A. S. BYATT
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the...
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I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, A...
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It appears that this is the only effective intervention we have once someone has been infected. It's...
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I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorot...
KAZUO ISHIGURO
He rose, placed another small log on the fire, sat back down in his armchair, and opened his book. DAVID BALDACCI Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
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I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. ...
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Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which ...
DAVID GROSS
I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading... I wasn'...
MICHAEL RIEDEL
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it i...
ASHLEY MONTAGU
Thirteen new areas have been certified. It has been shown that an area that was looking blank betwee...
BIJAY KUMAR
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to de...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
By acquiring Gnan (true worldly knowledge) one can tell 'what is right' and 'what is wrong', it make...
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Neither Doyle nor Christie ever wrote a book that compares with the novels of P.D. James. Doyle and ...
ANITA SHREVE
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all...
SOPHIE HANNAH
I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthu...
HA-JOON CHANG
Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!
AGATHA CHRISTIE
The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when th...
CRAIG FERGUSON
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER
True wealth is not measured by how much riches one has accumulated, it is measured by how much peace...
JACK TYME
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
One of the things that this team has been able to do is really dedicate itself to playing great team...
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I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by ...
DAN PALLOTTA
I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes....
MAUREEN JOHNSON
And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-"
"Ah, no, my friend-"
"From your point of vie...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
To master a lesson or any art there is no short cut. One has to work hard, practise for hours, keep ...
VIKRANT PARSAI
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
ONE DIRECTION
Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-ONE
We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.
DAY ONE
If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ...
ONE DIRECTION
You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
ONE DIRECTION
do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile
MISTER ONE
Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE
I've been coming here since Day One, ... Watching games at home is no fun. It's boring. Here, we get...
DAY ONE
If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
DAY ONE
Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
DAY ONE
big, medium and small.
DAY ONE
Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues...
DAY ONE
You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION
Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION
You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and...
ONE DIRECTION
Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. An...
ONE DIRECTION
Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
One thing that has been troubling for all of us in this line of work is that it could've happened to...
MARK MAGNUSON
Why didn't they ask the Evans?
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Put that in your mustache and smoke it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
In the world of birds, ruffled feathers is one sign of a virus. Isn’t that also the case at work or...
RHOBERTA SHALER, PHD
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
THOMAS AQUINAS
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of t...
JAMES JONES
My ultimate style pin up is a tough question because my own style is influenced by so many sources. ...
BEHATI PRINSLOO
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overloa...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
One hundred percent of dogs will be susceptible. I would expect to see this infection moving through...
EDWARD DUBOVI
No one has been able to make it work over an extended period. One of the benefits of the pledge peri...
LEA SLOAN
Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do...
LARRY BROWN
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external s...
COUNT LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI OR TOLSTOY
I have grown to understand this about life: true life is just one and whoever misses it never sees t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
MARGARET OLIPHANT
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
MRS. OLIPHANT
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.
CHRISTINE KEELER
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There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerfu...
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The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN
Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA
There is not one house, not one family that has been untouched by this tragedy.
LLOYD EDGECOMBE
The common knowledge here is that the election was not a fair and free one, it has been tainted by c...
JOSES TUHANUKU
In war there is no true winner, one side just gets tired of losing
C.R. MANGUM
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, ...
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By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one hol...
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The thing about Denver is that it seemed to me that most of the residential has been built in that L...
GARY SWITZER
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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WILFRID SHEED
So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every...
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Fox has been very careful to protect to franchise by airing it once a year. That may work again and,...
BRAD ADGATE
Vi pripadate Ligi naroda?
-Ja pripadam cijelom svijetu, madame, reče Poirot dramatično.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not tru...
JOHN GREEN
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Idea flourishes to the mind of the one who has deliberately made conditions favorable to attract it,...
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A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest num...
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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one h...
JOHN DEWEY
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring yo...
FRANKLIN P. JONES
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
KEVIN KELLY

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
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These little grey cells. It is up to them.
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
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My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.
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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?'

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My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.
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Use your little grey cells mon ami"
(Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')
- AGATHA CHRISTIE
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Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only...
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It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.
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Why didn't they ask the Evans?
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Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
بينما تمضي الحياة ، ويصبح من المرهق الحفاظ على الشخصية ...
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Lies--and again lies--it amazes me, the amount of lies we had told to us this morning."
"There ...
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One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the...
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Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!
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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?"
"That is so."
AGATHA CHRISTIE
One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.
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Enemies! People these days don't have enemies! Not English people!
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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them ...
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Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!
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She's not sensual. She doesn't want affairs. It's just cold-blooded experiment on her part and the f...
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Com maior percepção do caráter inglês, servi uma forte dose de uísque com soda e coloquei-a na ...
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With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in ...
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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The sim...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why.

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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a r...
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No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and deares...
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Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go...
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What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as ...
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No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
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A sound of laughter was heard-they turned sharply. Vera Claythorne was standing in the yard. She cri...
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All the same, lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily p...
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That’s right,” said Mrs. Oliver in an exasperated voice, “blame it all on me as usual!
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wanted to know.” “It’s better not to know. It’s better never to know. Better to leave things...
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From what you read and hear nowadays, it seems that murder under certain aspects is slowly but surel...
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The past is the father of the present,” said Poirot sententiously. He
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was suspicious, had always been suspicious, of mercy—too much mercy, that is to say. Too much merc...
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It was not unknown in the present age for children to commit crimes, quite young children. Children ...
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There is always a brave new world,” said Poirot, “but only, you know, for very special people. T...
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But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that h...
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May your moustaches never grow less.
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...A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in i...
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You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always ...
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There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was ...
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Put that in your mustache and smoke it.
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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
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The past is the father of the present.
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You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I...
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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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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and a...
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You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...
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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She w...
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One does feel proud to belong to the human race when one sees the wonderful things human beings have...
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they are only full of pity for the young killer, because of his youth. Why should they not execute h...
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Little by little the head emerged, preserved by the sludge for about 2,500 years. There it was–the...
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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
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On ülisuur viga lasta inimesel näha või kuulda valel ajal. Enamiku inimeste jaoks kaotab Shakespe...
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I can suspend judgment on those who kill–but I think they are evil for the community; they bring i...
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One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same ey...
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Oh, the glorious relief, the wonderful relief when somebody knows what's in your mind and tells it t...
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I was, like everyone else who wrote books or read them, against the criminal and for the innocent vi...
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have a war memorial of my own at Greenway. In the library, which was their mess-room, an artist has ...
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the horror of sitting at a tea table, looking across at my best loved friend, and suddenly realising...
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Oh, you still don’t understand,’ he said impatiently. ‘I’ve fallen in love with her, and I�...
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The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such ...
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