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“Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.”
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“Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.”
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“Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin.”
Source : Ian Rankin (1986). “The flood”, P D Meany Pub
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“My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.”
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“People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.”
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“As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.”
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“I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.”
