Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
AGATHA CHRISTIEIt’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
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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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Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
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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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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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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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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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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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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.
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It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Time is the best killer.
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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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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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