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You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. —John Waters
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.”
― Goodbye to Berlin
― Goodbye to Berlin
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“Try to say nothing negative about anybody.
a) for three days
b) for forty-five days
c) for three months
See what happens to your life.”
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a) for three days
b) for forty-five days
c) for three months
See what happens to your life.”
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“Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.”
― Hogfather
― Hogfather
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