“My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.”
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My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.”
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“Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.”
― Hogfather
― Hogfather
“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment
“He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”
― The Fifth Elephant
― The Fifth Elephant
“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”
― Reaper Man
― Reaper Man
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