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“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Занимая третий год место начальника одного из присутственных мест в Москве, Степан Аркадьич приобрел, кроме любви, и уважение сослуживцев, подчиненных, начальников и всех, кто имел до него дело. Главные качества Степана Аркадьича, заслужившие ему это общее уважение по службе, состояли, во-первых, в чрезвычайной снисходительности к людям, основанной в нем на сознании своих недостатков; во-вторых, в совершенной либеральности, не той, про которую он вычитал в газетах, но той, что у него была в крови и с которою он совершенно равно и одинаково относился ко всем людям, какого бы состояния и звания они ни были, и, в-третьих, -- главное -- в совершенном равнодушии к тому делу, которым он занимался, вследствие чего он никогда не увлекался и не делал ошибок.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Are you married?
Yes, I mumbled, that is to say - no.
Come, come, said Havisham angrily. It is a simple enough question.
I was married, I answered.
Died?
No, I mumbled, that is to say - yes.
I'll try harder questions in future, announced Havisham, for you are obviously not adept at the easy ones.”
― Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

“Собака в доме, как дефективный ребенок. Она постоянно в тебе нуждается. В тебе, твоем внимании, твоей заботе... Собаку, простите, даже на улицу надо вывести, потому что воспитанная собака скорее умрет, чем в доме нагадит... - Он посмотрел на Веселую, она грустно кивнула. - Кто, кто, кроме человека, идет на смерть за идею? Только собака!”
― Людмила Улицкая, Казус Кукоцкого

“Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

“And he'd looked straight back at her, holding her professional eye contact, and said yes, thankyou doctor, I do understand, yes. And he'd coughed, hard, repeatedly, spraying blooded phlegm into his handkerchief as to prove how much he understood.
Yes, thankyou doctor, I understand.
Things are not exactly one hundred percent the way we would like them to be.”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things

“All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things

“Murder is something you read about, listen to on a wireless, see at the pictures, discover in print every Sunday morning when you open your newspaper. But you never come across in your own everyday life.
It happens to other people, maybe in other districts, but it doesn't happen in your family, or among your neighbours, or down your street.”
― Molly Lefebure

“They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“It's not that difficult, I want to say. People cheat all the time. The reasons are always selfish and base, it's the excuses we make that are complicated.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

You cannot give me too much work; to accumulate work has almost become a passion with me: my study is so full of it now, that there is hardly an inch of room for any more. I shall have to throw out a wing soon.

And I am careful of my work, too. Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn’t a finger-mark on it. I take a great pride in my work; I take it down now and then and dust it. No man keeps his work in a better state of preservation than I do.

But, though I crave for work, I still like to be fair. I do not ask for more than my proper share.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Was wussten Töchter denn von ihren Müttern, sie wussten nichts”
― Dörte Hansen, This House Is Mine

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If he had any compassion for me' cried her husband impatiently 'he would not have danced half so much! For God's sake, say no more of his partners. Oh! that he sprained his ankle in the first dance!”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Не лысый, а стриженный наголо. Это большая разница. Лысеют от безысходности, а наголо стригутся из самоуважения”
― Victor Pelevin, The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur

“Romeo-y-Cohiba
Это твой RR SUV.

IsoldA
Почему?

Romeo-y-Cohiba
Он же с твоей стороны.

IsoldA
Но ведь в нем ты. Значит, он твой.

Romeo-y-Cohiba
Как он может быть моим, если я его не вижу?

IsoldA
А как он может быть моим, если я даже не могу в него залезть?”
― Victor Pelevin, The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur

“Monstradamus
Мама. Когда я слышу слово «дискурс», я хватаюсь за свой симулякр.”
― Victor Pelevin, The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur

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― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

“No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

“You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

“Ты пойми, милый, что в этом и суть подвига, что его всегда совершает не готовый к нему человек, потому что подвиг - это такая вещь, к которой подготовиться невозможно. То есть можно, например, наловчиться быстро подбегать к амбразуре, можно привыкнуть ловко прыгать на нее грудью, этому всему мы учим, но вот самому духовному акту подвига научиться нельзя, его можно только совершить.”
― Victor Pelevin, Omon Ra

“- Я вернусь за тобой, - сказал я, не оборачиваясь. - С веревками. Я поклялся.
- Когда? - спросил он, закрывая глаза.
- Через год, - ответил я. - Я вернусь за тобой через год.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“The commitment of marriage can frequently arouse some rather peculiar behaviour in men and women alike, but the bizarre notion that one can change the character of one's mate seems to occur more often to women than to men.”
― Alan Jay Lerner, The Street Where I Live

“All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.”
― Alan Jay Lerner, The Street Where I Live

“She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline