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Total quotes: 4

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Agatha Christie

Birthname

AKA: Mary WestmacottAgatha Christie, Agatha Miller

Birthday: September 15, 1890

Death: January 12, 1976

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright, Poet, Nurse

Spouse: Max Mallowan

Total quotes: 4

“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, Autobiography, An

Tagged: Life, Living, Extrovert, Being Alive, Joy, Happiness, Pain

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

— Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

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

— Agatha Christie, The Last Séance

Tagged: I Love You Mom, Motherhood, Family, Childhood, Growing Up, Children, mother's love, Love, Unconditional Love

“In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.”

— Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

Tagged: first lines of books

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