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“Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.”

Quote by Agatha Christie

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography is a candid look into the life of the famous British author. The book covers her early years, her writing career, and personal anecdotes, providing a comprehensive view of her life and the factors that influenced her work. more

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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie, a renowned British detective novel writer, is known as the Queen of Detective Fiction. She was born on September 15, 1890, and passed away on January 12, 1976. Christie's works are characterized by intricate plots, unique reasoning, and vivid characters, and have had a profound impact on detective fiction worldwide. more

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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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Source: Poirot in the Orient

“Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.”

People Writing Trouble Comfort Like Me Unsure

Author:Agatha Christie

“Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.”

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Book:Funerals are Fatal

Source: Funerals are Fatal

“I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.”

Want Humans Simple Race Human Race Working It Bad Things

Book:Endless night

Source: Endless night

“I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.”

Said Stories Detectives Thrillers Good Writers

Author:Agatha Christie

“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.”

Want Feelings Rooms Cry Walking Agony Pencils Casting Typewriters Biting Sofas Getting Started

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”

Reason Sentiments

Book:The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Christie's Collections

Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Christie's Collections

“Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?”

Bars Prisoner Defence

Book:Masterpieces of murder

Source: Masterpieces of murder

“Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.”

Knows Men Feels Mind Firsts Self Dying Duty Preservation Self Preservation

Book:Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection

Source: Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection

“There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.”

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Source: And Then There Were None