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« We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? »

V. [sententious] To every man his little cross. [He sighs.] Till he dies. [Afterthought.] And is forgotten.

E. In the meantime let us try and converse calmly, since we are incapable of keeping silent.

V. You're right, we're inexhaustible.

E. It's so we won't think.

V. We have that excuse.

E. It's so we won't hear.

V. We have our reasons.

E. All the dead voices.

V. They make a noise like wings.

E. [anxious] And we?
V. I beg your pardon?
E. I said, And we?
V. I don't understand.
E. Where do we come in?
V. Come in?
E. Take your time.
V. Come in? On our hands and knees.
E. As bad as that?
V. Your Worship wishes to assert his prerogatives?
E. We've no rights any more?
V. You'd make me laugh if it wasn't prohibited.
E. We've lost our rights?
V. [distinclty] We got rid of them.

LIZA. " Oh! If I only could go back to my flower basket! I should be independent of both you and father and all the world! Why did you take my independence from me? Why did I give it up? I'm a slave now, for all my fine clothes. "

HIGGINS. " Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. Theres only one way of escaping trouble; and thats killing things. Cowards, you notice, are always shrieking to have troublesome people killed. "

HIGGINS. " You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured – to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names? [To Miss Hill] What do you know of poetry? [To Mrs Hill] What do you know of science? [Indicating Freddy] What does he know of art or science or anything else? "

" Zoe was kept awake the whole eight hours of her flight by the harmonic cries of the five babies placed around her in a vaguely pentagramic arrangement. "

" If all else fails, just remember– when you're thirty you'll look back at this moment and think– 'Wow!' 'Why was I so upset? My life is so much worse now!' "

« I was sure that when presented with a 'bad guy', I would win purely on the virtue of being 'good'. I decided I must be one of the 'good guys', as I was small and weak. The underdog was always the hero. I didn't realise until later that the underdog was always the hero because all writers were losers at school. »

« Maybe I'd be dead if not for this. But instead I'm going to make something that didn't exist before. And I think that's beautiful. And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive ratings on Goodreads! And it'll be beautiful. »

« 'So here's a man you rather like who does terrible things'

'The whole ward is that way. A lot of the patients are really likeable and clever. But they're also highly volatile, hard to predict, very violent and some are downright scary.'

He said: 'Just like your dad.' »

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« Наступною була сторінка роботи з нацією, де писали, що Будда та Заратустра, як, безумовно, і Господь наш Ісус Христос, є вихідцями з Галичини. Ішлось і про те, що Атилла тривалий час був видатним полководцем при князеві Ярославі. Автор наводив навіть незаперечні докази: адже назва племені, яким верховодив могутній Атилла,—гуни—походить від українського слова «гунька», що означає верхню теплу одіж з овечої вовни. »

« Разом із Банзаєм вони вчилися на біохімії та обоє схиляли голови у пошані перед величчю циклу Кребса. Вони навіть планували видати кілька страшенно розумних і глибоких книжок на цю тему. Банзай подумки вже бачив, як він рогортає одну дуже вчену книжку й читає: Видавництво «Наукова Думка» готує до друку:
Банзай Ю., Мокоша С. «Ілюстрований путівник циклом Кребса в алегоріях» [...] »

« Et ainsi, moi qui ai employé toute une vie à décrire les hommes d'après leurs œuvres et à objectiver la structure intellectuelle de leur univers, je constatais, précisément sur mon propre exemple, combien reste impénétrable dans chaque destinée le noyau véritable de l'être, la cellule mouvante d'où jaillit toute croissance. »