Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

—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 have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find—at the age of 50, say—that a whole new life has opened before you.

—Agatha Christie

If I had kept all these things neatly sorted and filed and labelled, it would save me a lot of trouble. However, it is a pleasure sometimes, when looking vaguely through a pile of old note-books to find something scribbled down, as: Possible plot—do it yourself—girl and not really sister—August—with a kind of sketch of a plot. What it's all about I can't remember now; but it often stimulates me, if not to write that identical plot, at least to write something else.

—Agatha Christie in An Autobiography

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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

—Agatha Christie in An Autobiography

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

—Agatha Christie

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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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A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

—William Shakespeare

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

—Ancient Proverb

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