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You know things are really bad when, in 1355, the London authorities issue an order preventing any more excrement from being thrown into the ditch around the Fleet Prison on account of fears for the health of the prisoners.4
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
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“To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.”
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