Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.
AGATHA CHRISTIETo rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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Books are a habit-forming drug.
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Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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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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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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The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.
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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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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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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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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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The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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