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Colin Cotterill
“The woman’s brain has two hemispheres,” she slurred. “One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.”
Colin Cotterill, The Merry Misogynist

Clara Benson
“uncomfortably conscious that women of her age did not generally hide in cupboards drinking whisky”
Clara Benson, The Incident at Fives Castle

Plato
“are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?”
Plato, Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

Patricia Highsmith
“If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful , or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture.”
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Clara Benson
“I set fire to his bed one night while he was in it. I’d be obliged if you wouldn’t mention that, though, as they never found out who did it, but the police got involved and things were rather unpleasant at school for a while.”
Clara Benson, The Incident at Fives Castle

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