Agatha Christie Quotes, Stories Quotes, Detectives Quotes

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Stories Quotes

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

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I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

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Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

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