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“My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called fidelity to ancient tradition.”
― Murder Must Advertise
― Murder Must Advertise
“Do you enjoy reading?’ ‘I enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey.’ Bryant quailed at the thought. ‘That’s not really reading, is it? More like staring at an assortment of words.’ ‘It is very popular.’ ‘So is taking photographs of your dinner for Facebook, but that doesn’t mean it adds to the total sum of human knowledge.”
― Bryant & May and the Burning Man
― Bryant & May and the Burning Man
“So how'd an academic end up walking a zombie through a palace on a heist job?”
― The Palace Job
― The Palace Job
“As a footnote to the above, I would like to say that I am getting very tired of literary authorities, on both the stage and the screen, who advise young writers to deal only with those subjects that happen to be familiar to them personally. It is quite true that this theory probably produced "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," but the chances are it would have ruled out "Hamlet.”
― Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker
― Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker
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