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No ramifications whatsoever. You're not going to ramificate; you don't know what it means. You don't know which of the words I use are real words and which I'm making up

Poirot nodded and permitted himself a small smile. When there was no other pleasure to be taken from a situation, one might as well enjoy being correct, he thought.

I've had no practice at talking to famous detectives in my own kitchen.

I must say, I did not and never would understand why he required such a sizeable audience. It was not a theatrical production.

Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him.

Cassian looks at me intently, his eyes more black than purple right then. The purple only shows itself when he's feeling emotion. A rarity it seems.

Hall nestled, stretched out like a sleeping beast.

Where did you sleep?" His mouth curled in a cocky grin at this question. "Where do you think?" ... He turned his attention back to the wood and answered his own question, sounding a little bored all of a sudden. "On the couch.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Athens, nurse of men.

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Emptiness is the worlds greatest discovery

After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?' 'Yes." 'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.

With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate.

Author, author, did you write these legs?( The Milligan- Puckoon

Keep talking Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.' 'That's how I got in, sir.' 'Didn't we all.

it is certain that seditions, wars, and contempt or breach of the laws are not so much to be imputed to the wickedness of the subjects, as to the bad state of the dominion.

Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Each week, I plan an assignment. Students, interrogate form down to the last comma. Students, broadcast the crimes of history.

Hypocrite reader — my fellow — my brother!

Man, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society. Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?