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“When I first came over the hill, I thought this was an Indian reservation,” Morris said, pointing to the tipis.
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“In order that some sense of mystery should still be preserved, no revelation will yet be made concerning whose upper arm sustains the bruise. This fact may safely be made the subject of suspense since it is of no significance whatsoever.”
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“A 1968 survey asking young men how they spent their free time within the last three months was topped by “reading,” followed by “drinking at home.”
― Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
― Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
“Although they knew that a suspicious object had been sighted on board train B801, and knew that it had caused numerous casualties, not one person thought to take the train out of service at any point.”
― Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
― Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
“Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was.”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
“Note: There is no such thing as someone who speaks your language with a perfect accent but whose sentences are full of grammatical mistakes. If the person has mastered the sounds, then it follows that before that, he had the sentence structures down. People learn a language’s parts in order of difficulty.”
― Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
― Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
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