Agatha christie autobiography quotes about life

I am happy to say that I can enjoy almost everything. But there is a great deal left. Operas and concerts, and reading, and the enormous pleasure of dropping into bed and going to sleep, and dreams of every variety. Almost best of all, sitting in the sun--gently drowsing and there you are again--remembering. I remember, I remember, the house where I was born Inarticulate I shall always be.

It is probably one of the causes that have made made me a writer. They are doing skilled work which you could not possibly do yourself without long training. And remember they cannot answer back. You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you. If you are impolite, they will despise you, and rightly, because you have not acted like a lady.

More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then, whereas at twenty we put on a show of being someone else, of being in the mode of the moment. If there is an intellectual fashion, you become an intellectual; if girls are fluffy and frivolous, you are fluffy and frivolous. As life goes on, however, it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself every day.

This is sometimes disconcerting for those around you, but a great relief to the person concerned. That, I think, describes best what Archie was like when he came.

Agatha christie autobiography quotes about life

He went through the motions of ordinary greetings, but he was, quite simply, not Archie. You can do things to aid people's physical disabilities; but you can do little to help the pain of the heart. Good-looking, perhaps—but are his legs common? Hercule Poirot speaking. I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find — at the age of fifty, say — that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again. There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them.

It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way — whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of. I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. I learned Life is really a one way street, isn't it? Albert looked slightly taken aback and reverted to a more natural form of speech.

I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation. The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression. The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one.

Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so. You are young, younger than you yourself know. One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none. It can neither be explained nor ignored. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least.

Women are wonderful realists. She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. One does what one can, not what one cannot.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. In the midst of life, we are in death.

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