“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
― The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
― Very Good, Jeeves!
― Very Good, Jeeves!
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