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“Take the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic bloated king. Think of the sweated masses who toiled to build them and died doing it. It makes me sick to think of the suffering and torture they represent."
Mrs. Allerton said cheerfully: "You’d rather have no Pyramids, no Parthenon, no beautiful tombs or temples—just the solid satisfaction of knowing that people got three meals a day and died in their beds."
The young man directed his scowl in her direction. "I think human beings matter more than stones.”
― Death on the Nile
Mrs. Allerton said cheerfully: "You’d rather have no Pyramids, no Parthenon, no beautiful tombs or temples—just the solid satisfaction of knowing that people got three meals a day and died in their beds."
The young man directed his scowl in her direction. "I think human beings matter more than stones.”
― Death on the Nile
“In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.”
― Death on the Nile
― Death on the Nile
“Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: they distract the mind from food!”
― Death on the Nile
― Death on the Nile
“How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.”
― Death on the Nile
― Death on the Nile
“Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.”
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
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