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“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“We have a saying that time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even like a rock.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.”
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“Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.”
― Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
― Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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