There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.

—Agatha Christie in The Moving Finger

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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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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

—Agatha Christie

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People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I’ve known many who have suffered worse and been cut off from life much more… and they’ve managed to lead happy contented lives. It’s what’s in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

—Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced

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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

—Agatha Christie in The Secret Adversary

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

—Agatha Christie in The Mysterious Affair at Styles

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.

—Agatha Christie in An Autobiography

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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

—M. Scott Peck

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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

—Gertrude Stein

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They want to hear that Buddhism is the answer to all of their problems, not a big fat arrow pointing to the source of all of their problems: ego.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is "You've got to be kidding.

—Jimmy Carter

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I thought it must be fate that I kept bumping into him, some strange sign that he was meant to come back into my life and fix or change something, a voice from the past arriving in the present with the answers to everything.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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