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“It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.”
― Clive James

“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
― Clive James

“Jacob: Newt . . . I don't think I'm dreaming.

Newt: What gave it away?

Jacob: I ain't got the brains to make this up.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

“The Admiral had the intense pleasure of welcoming Bill and Tubby again as his guests when they returned from a cheerful violation of Norway’s highly un-neutral waters, with their rescued fellow-seamen; and when Mrs. Birkett heard that Bill had had the ocarina with him on that glorious occasion she felt that she had in no small measure contributed to the victory and the rescue and became quite bloated with pride. Two”
― Angela Thirkell, Cheerfulness Breaks In