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“It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren’t the people the people who made up the phrase “people are people everywhere” had traditionally thought of as people.”
― The Fifth Elephant
― The Fifth Elephant
“He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid, and maybe he had all the tact of an avalanche and was as self-centred as a tornado, but it would never have occurred to him that children were important enough to be unkind to.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“Like the hurried lover, it comes and goes.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“Reality returned, and tried to pretend that it had never left.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“It was, he felt, a persistent flaw in his wife's otherwise practical and sensible character that she believed, against all evidence, that he was a man of many talents. He knew he had hidden depths. There was nothing in them that he'd like to see float to the surface. They contained things that should be left to lie.”
― The Fifth Elephant
― The Fifth Elephant
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