"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."
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"If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty."
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"I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!"
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"NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither."
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"Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around."
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"The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better."
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"I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins."
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"Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it."
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"Their families cordially detested one another."
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"You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."
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"Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them."
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"Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid."
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"Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!"
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"Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne."
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"Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off."
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"You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you."
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"You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."
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"You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you."
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"People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen."
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"Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away."
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