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"That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart."
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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."

"There's none so blind as they that won't see."

"Look around and you will see what others are not seeing."

"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"

"Ignorance shuts the mind's door tight, wisdom swings it wide open."

"The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man."

"Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky."
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"No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order A la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?"

"Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down."

"I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal."

"Excuse me, Tex,' the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn't want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits."

"The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present."

"Artemis: 'Right, brothers. Onward. Imagine yourself seated at a cafe in Montmartre.'Myles: 'In Paris.'Artemis: 'Yes, Paris. And try as you will, you cannot attract the waiter's attention. What do you do?'Beckett: 'Umm...tell Butler to jump-jump-jump on his head?'Myles: 'I agree with simple-toon.'Artemis: 'No! You simply raise one finger and say clearly 'ici, garcon.'Beckett: 'Itchy what?"

"We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon."
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