Agatha Christie Quotes, Writing Quotes, Typewriters Quotes

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

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You gave 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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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

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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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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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No innocent person ever has an alibi.

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Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

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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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too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

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The rottenness comes from within.

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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

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If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

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I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

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