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.

—Agatha Christie in The Man in the Brown Suit

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan (née Miller, 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot (with the novel...

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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

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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.

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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness — either enforced or voluntary. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself — and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

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But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.

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On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

—Rodney Dangerfield

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If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you.

—Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

—Samuel Butler

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What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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