There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pen…

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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off. ✨ Agatha Christie (1991). Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, Berkley Publishing Group
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In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot) ✨ Agatha Christie (1972). Hercule Poirot's Christmas
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Be sure thy sin will find thee out. ✨ Agatha Christie (1986). 5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection, Wings
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. ✨ Agatha Christie (1989). Remembered death, Free Press

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off. ✨ Agatha Christie (1991). Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, Berkley Publishing Group

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