I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.
AGATHA CHRISTIEFiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
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Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
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Books are a habit-forming drug.
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Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
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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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Assumptions are dangerous things.
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