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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Sundial by Shirley Jackson The October Country by Ray Bradbury A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
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Alexander’s Quotes

Agatha Christie
“Time is the best killer.”
― Agatha Christie
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Shirley Jackson
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity
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Daphne du Maurier
“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is
alone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
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Mervyn Peake
“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
tags: alone, loneliness
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David Sedaris
“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
tags: sympathy
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