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“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
“The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.”
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
“I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.”
― The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories
― The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories
“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”
― Bellwether
― Bellwether
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