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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.
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Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.
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The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.
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…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.
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This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
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If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.
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When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
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I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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