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The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.Agatha Christie
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... suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldn't be able to get back...Agatha Christie
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I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.Agatha Christie
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The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.Agatha Christie
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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.Agatha Christie
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Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died.. .Agatha Christie
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Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.Agatha Christie
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The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.Agatha Christie
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There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one of that kind. She's totally uninterested in herself. And yet she's got a strong character--there must be something. I thought at first it was her art--but it isn't. I've never met anyone so detached from life. That's dangerous.'' Dangerous? What do you mean?'' Well, you see--it must mean an obsession of some kind, and obsessions are always dangerous.Agatha Christie
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You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine Producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally unimportant, a mere walking-on part, but upon it may hang the issues of the play if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a person in a particular place may matter unimaginably. .Agatha Christie
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She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?' 'I don't think that's possible, ' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere.Agatha Christie
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In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of the moment. It may be some quite irrelevant detail, like the pattern of a wallpaper, but it will never be forgotten.Agatha Christie