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Poor Things

by Alasdair Gray

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Jan 31, 2025 01:15PM

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

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“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters

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“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent

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“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

tags: classic, crime, detective, mystery, novel

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“То самое, что в старом мире вызывает особенное желание беспощадно разрушить, - например, тайная полиция, - особенно легко приспосабливается к разрушению, жестокости, беспощадности, становится необходимым и непременно сохраняется, делается хозяином в новом мире и в конечном счете убивает смелых разрушителей. ("Туча")”
― Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky, Пять ложек эликсира: Избранные сценарии

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