Agatha Christie (UK. 1890-1976)
Quotes
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.
If I was born once again, I would like to be a woman - always!
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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Read her works!
The Secret Adversary
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie in Mystery Net
Agatha Christie in Wikipedia
The Official Agatha Christie Website * Murder on the Orient Express (book, audiobook, movie...)
Monty Python - Agatha Christie Sketch