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"I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade."
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"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."
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"Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."
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"And what's the irony?...In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words?"
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"I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence."
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"It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves."
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"I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I."
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"Look innocent. Have hope. "Okay. "And remember "What? "Even O.J. Simpson was acquitted."
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"Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the chops."
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"People who always arrive early aren't worth waiting for."
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"Don't underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable."
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"She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe."
Identity
"In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash."
Silence
"Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands."
Conflict
"There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook."
Ethics
"Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics, nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed."
Corruption
"Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners."
Respect
"So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix."
Humor
"Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index."
Satire
"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."
Discovery
"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."
Mortality
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