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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

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

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Nightmares and Dreamscapes

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life

by Maggie Smith (Goodreads Author)

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Alexander’s Quotes

“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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“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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“Time is the best killer.”
― Agatha Christie

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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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