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"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."
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"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition."
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"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."
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"Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. "A trap?"Probably, Frank said. "She's not mortal, Hedge said, sniffing the air. "Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus."No doubt, Percy agreed. "Awesome. Hedge grinned. "Let's go."
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"If something came out of the deal, it couldn't make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn't have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom."
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"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."
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"Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die."
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"Terrible fires resemble terrible people. They are unpredictable. They are selfish. they are deadly and ruinous. And no matter where they are prowling, no matter what treachery they are cooking up, they have something in common. They can be stopped."
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"A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind."
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"So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air."
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"If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be."
Society
"If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it."
Humor
"A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things."
Technology
"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."
Economy
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."
Mindset
"What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..."
Discovery
"The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one."
Religion
"Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity."
Language
"It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own."
Reflection
"They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally."
Hypocrisy
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