

“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

“Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.”
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs; A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings!”
― Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
― Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

“You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on them, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration…just letting them drift gently past.”
― The Hollow
― The Hollow
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