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“She is a character in a novel who reads the other characters as characters and rewrites them as people.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
“I found, after spending ten years as a journalist, learning to say exactly what I meant in short sentences, that I must learn, if I was to achieve literature and favourable reviews, to write as though I were not quite sure about what I meant but was jolly well going to say something all the same in sentences as long as possible.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
“It's always so attractive to be able to do good at somebody else's expense”
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“How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life.”
― Matrix
― Matrix
“who do you honestly believe rules any nation? The apparent rulers, or the real ones behind the scenes who manipulate a nation’s finances for their own benefit? Mr. Lincoln is as helpless as you and I. He can only, unfortunate man, give his people slogans, and slogans, it would appear, are what the people want. I have yet to hear of a nation that ever rejected a war.”
― Captains and the Kings
― Captains and the Kings
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