God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

Agatha Christie

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie

family birthday love

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

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imagine may thinking

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

happiness inspirational life

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit t... by Agatha Christie

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

Agatha Christie

fit taken facts

Books are a habit-forming drug. by Agatha Christie

Books are a habit-forming drug.

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habit drug book

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

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fool people thinking

Fear is incomplete knowledge. by Agatha Christie

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

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incomplete incomplete-knowledge

Very few of us are what we seem. by Agatha Christie

Very few of us are what we seem.

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literature seems

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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remains has-beens alive

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

Agatha Christie

accompany-us self world

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

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hard-life nice men

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

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individuality everyday character

With thought, all problems can be resolved. by Agatha Christie

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

Agatha Christie

problem

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

confused cute love

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason... by Agatha Christie

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Agatha Christie

mother-and-daughter christian inspirational

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust... by Agatha Christie

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

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trust money memorable

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen. by Agatha Christie

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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unforeseen resolution faces

To every problem, there is a most simple solution. by Agatha Christie

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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simple-solutions problem simple

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one. by Agatha Christie

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

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loses winning war

The tragedy of life is that people do not change. by Agatha Christie

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

Agatha Christie

tragedy life-is people