Agatha Christie
"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well."
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"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well."
"بلغت لحظة فارقة، انتقلت فيها من طور الهواية إلى مدار الاحتراف. وحملت على عاتقي ثقل المهنة، وهو أن تكتب حتى وإن لم تكن لك رغبة، ولا تستسيغ ما يخطه قلمك، ولا يكون إبداعك في أوجِه."
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
"أفضل الأوقات لتخطيط كتاب هي حين تغسل الأطباق."
Agatha Christie
"It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down."
"كان واضحًا أن الكتب هي التي تملك المتجر، لا العكس. فقد انتشرت في كل مكان وتوحشت، مستوليةً على موطنها، تتكاثر وتتوالد، وبدا جليًا أنها تفتقر إلى يدٍ قويةٍ تكبح جماحها."
Agatha Christie
The Clocks
"But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things."
"لكنني أعرف الطبيعة البشرية يا صديقي، وأؤكد لك أن أشد الناس براءة، إذا ما واجه فجأة احتمال محاكمته بتهمة القتل، سيفقد صوابه ويرتكب أشد الحماقات."
Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas."
"أظن أن السبب يكمن في أن جميع الأطفال تقريباً يذهبون إلى المدرسة في أيامنا هذه، وتُرتّب لهم الأمور، مما يجعلهم يبدون عاجزين بشكل محزن عن إنتاج أفكارهم الخاصة."
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
"I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate."
"لطالما تساءلتُ لمَ يميل العالم بأسره"
Agatha Christie
Murder at the Vicarage
"A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep."
"الرجل حين يتودد إلى أحد، قد يكون ودوداً وشهماً، مليئاً بالاهتمام، ساحراً بكل ما فيه. أما حين يقع الرجل في الحب حقاً، فلا يملك إلا أن يبدو كالحمل الوديع."
Agatha Christie
The Mystery of the Blue Train
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
"من أسعد ما يمكن أن يمرّ بك في الحياة، في ظنّي، أن تحظى بطفولة سعيدة."
Agatha Christie
"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."
"لقد انتابني أحيانًا بؤسٌ عارمٌ ويأسٌ مطبقٌ، واعتصرتني الأحزانُ اعتصارًا مؤلمًا. لكن في غمرةِ كل هذا، ما زلتُ أوقنُ تمامَ اليقينِ أن مجردَ الحياةِ بحد ذاتها هبةٌ جليلةٌ."
Agatha Christie
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
"كثرة هي الميول التي تُلقي على عاتق الله شروراً يرتكبها الإنسان بمحض إرادته."
Agatha Christie
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
"النصيحة الجيدة محكوم عليها دائمًا بالإهمال، لكن ذلك ليس سببًا للامتناع عن إسدائها."
Agatha Christie
"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
"أفضل الأوقات لتخطيط كتاب هي أثناء غسلك للأطباق."
Agatha Christie
"These little grey cells. It is up to them."
"تلك الخلايا الرمادية الصغيرة. الأمر معقود عليها."
Agatha Christie
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."
"عالم الآثار هو أفضل زوج للمرأة؛ فكلما تقدم بها العمر ازداد اهتمامه بها."
Agatha Christie
"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."
Agatha Christie
"We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then."
Agatha Christie
"The human mind prefers to be spoonfed 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
"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
"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."
Agatha Christie
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