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“Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.”
Source : Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.113, Ipso Books
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“I can't text. My fingers are too big.”
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“Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.”
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“If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.”
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“In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.”
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“As a literary device, sugar and pastry carried so many nuances - the sweetness of the past, the danger of overeating and addiction, the political and environmental devastation of plantations - it was just what a book needed.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.”