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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan , (1890 – 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world’s longest-running play The Mousetrap and six romances under the pen name Mary Westmacott . In 1971, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. She served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed when The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920 featuring Hercule Poirot. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels.
“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.”
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. ”
“You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
“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.”
“The young people think the old people are fools – but the old people know the young people are fools.”
“It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”
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- - - - - - -“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. ”
“You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
“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.”
“The young people think the old people are fools – but the old people know the young people are fools.”
“It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”
