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“There was a magnificent legal staff, a mechanism such as is possessed by every state before its political, economic and moral collapse.”
― The Good Soldier Schweik
― The Good Soldier Schweik
“Here, for the greater part, all logic was in abeyance and it was red tape which was victorious, it was red tape which throttled, it was red tape which caused lunacy, it was red tape which made a fuss, it was red tape which chuckled, it was red tape which threatened and never pardoned.”
― The Good Soldier Schweik
― The Good Soldier Schweik
“Where I go, the ghosts go. I go where the evil is.”
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
“I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it’s sharp as a nun on her second sherry.”
― The Devil
― The Devil
“killers are like the army, dull and dangerous simultaneously.”
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
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