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Anissa

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Anissa’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)

A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3) by Anthony Horowitz

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I think there’s something wonderful and reassuring about the idea that in the rush of modern life people will still come together and sit for an hour in a theatre, a gymnasium or a giant tent simply out of a love of books and reading.

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Anissa’s Quotes

“I never lose, I either win or learn”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: attitude, inspirational, positive-thinking

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“Sometimes, indeed, he went so far as to visualise himself as an archangel, a rotund St. Michael, armed with the sword of Dymond and defended by the shield of Green, protecting the helpless from the assault of the massed powers of Darkness, those arch-fiends, the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.”
― Martin Edwards Michael Gilbert

tags: taxes

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“she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life.”
― Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered

tags: taxes

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“We are all glamorous, some more so than others.”
― Iain Cameron Williams, The Empirical Observations of Algernon

tags: glamor, glamorous, iain-cameron-williams

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“The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones’ wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.”
― Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead

tags: bereaved, death-of-a-loved-one

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