Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

—Agatha Christie in The Mysterious Affair at Styles

About Agatha Christie

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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

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.

—Agatha Christie

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.

—Agatha Christie

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

—Agatha Christie

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.

—Agatha Christie

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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

—Charles Darwin

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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

—Max Beerbohm

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It's funny what love can do to a person. It strips them of everything, even their instincts. It creates a new reality for you to adhere to, a new world where you break the rules just to keep the love intact.

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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

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