"If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong."

-- Graham Swift

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“If a 13 year old girl is pregnant, that is evidence of sexual abuse and thatâ€™s supposed to be reported to the authorities and these people are never doing it. Iâ€™ve said it before and Iâ€™ll say it again, the American abortion industry is running a pedophile protection racket and theyâ€™ve been doing it for years and theyâ€™re often getting federal tax dollars to run this thing.”
“Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.”
“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

Source : Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan
“Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.”
“Only useless things are indispensable.”
“People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.”
“Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.”

Source : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1865). “Outlines of Theology”, p.238
“My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.”

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