"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."
"Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting."
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Source: The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 206), 2004.
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