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“When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.”
― Stephen King, Rage

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“Intelligence is intelligence, whether it be born of wires and light or two apes fucking.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust

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“Philosophy - A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works

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“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
― Friedrich Engels Karl Marx

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“The victim was white, in his early thirties, five feet eleven inches tall, ten and a half stone in weight, and in good physical condition. The last part always irritated Banks: how could a corpse ever be in good physical condition ?”
― Peter Robinson, The Hanging Valley

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