"the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other."

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Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.408, Penguin

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“I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.”
“My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones”

Source : Interview with Jack Nicholson, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.
“I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!”

Source : "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.”
“If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?”
“I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.”
“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “Love Over Scotland”, p.279, Hachette UK

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