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“This temple is poor, so leave as much as you can. Especially you rich folks—I know who you are; you’re wearing those fine silks and embroidered obis. You have a lot of money. You must have a lot of troubles too. If you leave a
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“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
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“There are many persons driving automobiles in this city who ought not to drive.”
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
“While I was in Schenectady he joined the Dutch Reformed Church, which is a very tough church, indeed.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Even though there was nobody behind her, and nobody across from her, and anyone coming down the road could see that her only choices were to turn right or rise into the air like a dirigible, she had her turn signal blinking. She was E.V. Waring, without a doubt. There was no particular reason to switch the signal on, but no particular reason not to, and it made more sense to use up one ten-thousandth of the life of a forty-cent bulb than to surprise a pedestrian she hadn’t seen. The engraving should have said, “E. V. Waring, No Fool.”
― Sleeping Dogs
― Sleeping Dogs
“You are hereby warned that any movement on your part not explicitly endorsed by verbal authorization on my part may pose a direct physical risk to you, as well as consequential psychological and possibly, depending on your personal belief system, spiritual risks ensuing from your personal reaction to said physical risk. Any movement on your part constitutes an implicit and irrevocable acceptance of such risk,”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
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