"I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane."
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"Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum."
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"This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs."
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"Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom."
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"I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz."
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"I was a very keen reader of science fiction."
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"Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death."
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"But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?"
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"And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word."
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"The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive."
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"She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing."
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"We're on a mission from Glod."
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"These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there."
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"It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum."
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"Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it."
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"In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better."
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"Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them."
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"Chances are where you find them"
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"The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]"
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"I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?"
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