"A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking."

-- Victor Hugo

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“What I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.”
“Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.”
“We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.”
“Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.”
“Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.”
“I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.”
“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.”

Source : Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.651, Univ of California Press
“You're The Grinch, Cole! That's why you don't like it.”

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