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“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.”
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“She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.”
― Busman's Honeymoon
― Busman's Honeymoon
“During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison.
On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.”
― Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.”
― Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
“Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.”
― Strong Poison
― Strong Poison
“There is no doubt that a little difficulty and plenty of variety keep you young, or at any rate amused, which may be nearly the same thing. I sometimes wonder whether science will one day establish that we die of boredom.”
― Folio Columns 2003-2014
― Folio Columns 2003-2014
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