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“But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn.

"She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed.

"Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

tags: omelette, poirot

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“Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?
Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

tags: mothers, poirot

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“Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

tags: poirot

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#4

“Well,” said Adam, as Poirot went out. “First girls’ knees, and now draughtsmanship! What next, I wonder!”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

tags: poirot

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“Excuse me, Monsieur Poirot. If you'd like to ask any questions, I'm sure the doctor wouldn't mind.

Of course not. Of course not. Great admirer of yours, Monsieur Poirot. Little gray cells -- order and method. I know all about it.”
― Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table

tags: poirot

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#6

“Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?”

“Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring.

“Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.”

“I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda.

“So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.”
― Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table

tags: poirot, truth

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#7

“Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

tags: cigarettes, poirot

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#8

“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperament. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.”
― Agatha Christie

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#9

“We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I.”
― Andre Norton, The People of the Crater

tags: destiny

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#10

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

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#11

“Their world has changed overnight ...Even after the trial, after the verdict -- whatever it might be -- life would never be the same again.

That was the truth of murder.”
― Marian Babson, The Cat Next Door

tags: murder-trial, truth

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#12

“When God made man she was practicing.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Cat on the Scent

tags: feminism, humor

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#13

“He felt lost without his hatred–lost and afraid.
About Mickey Argyle”
― Agatha Christie, Ordeal by Innocence

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#14

“Whatever had happened, she wondered, to the concept of reading as entertainment? Now it appeared to be an endurance contest as to how many pages the reader could get through without throwing up.
(Lorinda, chapter 1)”
― Marian Babson, Please Do Feed the Cat

tags: reading

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#15

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: admiration, escape, false-standards, impossible, impression, measurement, power, science, success, true-value, underestimate, value, wealth

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#16

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

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#17

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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#18

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

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#19

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

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#20

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#21

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship

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#22

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

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#23

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

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#24

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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#25

“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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#26

“Fourth Doctor: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.”
― Chris Boucher

tags: doctor-who

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#27

“... truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, In This Grave Hour

tags: time, truth

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#28

“How is it, she thought, that one can create a character who is more intelligent, more observant, more perceptive than oneself?”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

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#29

“In October 2015 we were lucky enough to have our wedding at Agatha Christie’s beautiful home, Greenway, on the banks of the River Dart in Devon. If there could be such a thing as a patron saint of second marriages, I can think of no better candidate than Agatha Christie.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

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#30

“Coincidence is a messenger sent by the truth." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

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