Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
AGATHA CHRISTIEOne doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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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 is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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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 impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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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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I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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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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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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It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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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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What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.
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If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
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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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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.
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
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