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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature.

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The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Doe, Sound, Truth, Unconvincing

Time is the best killer.

Killer, Killers, Time

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

Doe, Different, Guise, Anew, Time

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

Doe, Inspirational Life, Life

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

Character, Crooked, Feet, Life, Men

If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

Differences, Hair, Instead, Make, Moustache, Real

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

Alive, Distorting, Keep, Past, Think, Thinking

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

Doubt, Hastings, Likely, Reading, Stories

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

Certain, Indifferent, Met, Mets, People

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Art, Detectives, Favors, Seeking, Under

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Fact, Facts, Murderer, Room, Rooms

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

Children, Different, Girl, Liars, Looked, Weak

I, myself, was always recognized. . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was. . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

Family, Letters, Originality, Speller, Writing

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

Exciting, First Time, Firsts, Thing, Time

Fey. . . a Scotch word. . . It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

Exalted, Fey, Mean, Scotch, Word

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

Children, Interference, Suffer, Suffering

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.

Dog, Dogs, Rejoin, Whole, Wisdom, Wise

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

Back, Bitterness, Eternal, Leads, Nowhere, Turns

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

Generation, Generations, Historian, History, Writes, Writing

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

Everyone, Hercule Poirot, Likes, Talking

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