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• Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

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  Knives, Shining, Confusing

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

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  Simple, Achievement, Great Inventions

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• I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

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  Writing, Should Have, Imagine

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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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  People, Mets, Certain

  Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air”, Dodd Mead

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• I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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  Education, Children, Learning

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.62, HarperCollins UK

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• Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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  Sports, Surfing, Cursing

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

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• In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

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  Impossible, Arise, Conversation

  Agatha Christie (1972). “Hercule Poirot's Christmas”

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• Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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  Believe, Water, Pool

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

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• My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

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  Sound, Hercule Poirot, Remarks

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Hercule Poirot's casebook”, Putnam Adult

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• Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

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  Elephants, Remember, Forget

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• Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

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  Despise, Things To Do, Courses

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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• Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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  Ideas, Plot, Hats

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• Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

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  Men, Aunt, Should Have

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

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  Ends, Glad

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

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  Needs, Desperate, Remedy

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

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  Men, Evil, Missing

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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  Children, Suffering, Interference

  Agatha Christie (1959). “Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence”

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• There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own. ~Mr. Aristides

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  Beautiful, Passion, Hair

  Agatha Christie (1987). “Destination unknown”

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• I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

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  Believe, Book, Memorable

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• marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

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  Children, Judging, Doubt

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Poirot)”, p.30, HarperCollins UK

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• a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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  Men, Weakness, Excuse

  Agatha Christie (1959). “Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence”

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• A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

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  Men, Mad, Knows

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Secret Adversary (Diversion Classics)”, p.276, Diversion Books

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• Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

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  Real, Cutting, Defeated

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”, p.90, Booklassic

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• Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

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  Suicide, Strong, Lying

  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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• At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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  Worst, My Time, Knows

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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