Agatha Christie Quotes, Writing Quotes, Should Have Quotes

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

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When a child is in crisis, parents should have a role and a voice. They should be the first to help, not the last to know.

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The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

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All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert.

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

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I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

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Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

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