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• Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

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  Believe, Paper, Frogs

  Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”

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• all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

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  Husband, Men, Every Man

  Agatha Christie (1931). “The man in the brown suit”

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• A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

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  Attitude, Men, Soul

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

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  Tired, Reality, Important

  "5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection".

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• I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

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  Mother, Walking Away, Ice

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• Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

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  Love Is, Thinking, Young

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

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  Thinking, Hercule Poirot, Ifs

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• The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

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  Young, Enjoy, Young Women

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Poirot)”, p.23, HarperCollins UK

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• To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

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  Adventure, Dedication, Monotonous Life

  "Perfect partners in crime: Tommy and Tuppence" by Sarah Crompton, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2015.

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• No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

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  Sinister

  Agatha Christie (2000). “Cat Among the Pigeons”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

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  Men, Thinking, Admiration

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.66, HarperCollins UK

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• You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

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  Rose, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• One place is very like another.

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  Agatha Christie (2010). “Death on the Nile (Poirot)”, p.30, HarperCollins UK

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• how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

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  Retirement, Imagine, Monotony

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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• Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

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  Feelings, Emotion, Felt

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (Poirot)”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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• Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

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  Hands, Clothes, Life And Death

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• We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

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  Years, People, Twenties

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• I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

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  Men, Curiosity, Would Be

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Postern of Fate”

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• if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

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  People, Likes, Duty

  Agatha Christie, Christie (1982). “Haloween Party”, Pocket

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• The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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  Writing, History, Generations

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Mysterious Mr Quin”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

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  Mystery, Clergymen, Unsolved Mysteries

  Agatha Christie (2012). “The Tuesday Night Club: A Miss Marple Short Story”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• "Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

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  Loss, People, Looks

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

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  Art, Gains, Recognition

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

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  Attitude, Selfish, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

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  Typewriters, Agony, Feelings

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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