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Who doesn’t have a cousin who looks like that, eh?
“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else in life becomes eerily easy.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. ”
― Three Men in a Boat
― Three Men in a Boat
“The dear Archdeacon is getting so absent-minded. He read a list of box-holders for the opera as the First Lesson the other Sunday, instead of the families and lots of the tribes of Israel that entered Canaan. Fortunately no one noticed the mistake.”
― The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
― The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
“You can forget Proust and those stupid cakes. Beatles’ songs are more potent.”
― Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams
― Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams
“Anyone who can go through Hyde Park on a summer’s evening and not feel moved by it is probably going through in an ambulance with the sheet pulled over their face.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Marta’s 2025 Year in Books
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