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‘Our aims are the same.’ ‘Never!’ Connolly roared. ‘You want to substitute Irish capitalists for British. The noses of Connemara peasants will be ground just as flat.’
“We didn't exactly believe your story.'
Then --?'
'We believed your two hundred dollars.'
'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant.
'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.”
― The Maltese Falcon
Then --?'
'We believed your two hundred dollars.'
'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant.
'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.”
― The Maltese Falcon
“The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.”
― Hell's Angels
― Hell's Angels
“Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.”
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“It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.”
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“The range and diversity of...places in England with character or charm is often overlooked. A bicycle more than anything else helps one both to find and to appreciate them: they and it have quiet tastes in common.
And a bicycle leaves no smell, oil-drip, weakened fabric or frightened pedestrian in its wake.”
― England by Bicycle
And a bicycle leaves no smell, oil-drip, weakened fabric or frightened pedestrian in its wake.”
― England by Bicycle
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