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 CHRISTIEThe happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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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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Don’t think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
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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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What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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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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Assumptions are dangerous things.
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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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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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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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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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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.
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Books are a habit-forming drug.
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