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Book cover for The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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“What on earth has that to do with it?” I ejaculated.

“Adventurers and loners, romantics and desperadoes, eccentrics and slow suicides—the luxuriousness of the place, its seduction and savagery, calls to the wildest among us. Alaska, the land of black moons and midnight suns.”
― Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

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“Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.”
― Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

tags: evil, human-nature, society

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“We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

tags: humor

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“In the meantime...
...how would you feel about robbing a bank? "

"Positively! I feel positively about robbing a bank!"

" I thought you might.”
― N.D. Stevenson, Nimona

tags: bank-robbery, criminals, theft, villains

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“bread makes you fat??”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

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