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“One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.”
― Alan Bradley, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches

“But gratitude can be the very devil sometimes, particularly if you have to be grateful for services you’d rather be without.”
― P.D. James, The Black Tower

“We can all talk to the dead. It’s getting them to talk back that’s the hard part.”2”
― Bruce M. Hood, The Science of Superstition

“The brain creates both the mind and the body we experience. A physical thing creates the mental world we inhabit.”
― Bruce M. Hood, The Science of Superstition

“All greatness is improbable. What’s probable is tedious and petty.”24”
― Shawn MacKenzie, Dragons for Beginners: Ancient Creatures in a Modern World (For Beginners

“It is just like one of those ridiculous paperbacks where some amateur  with no apparent connection to the forces of law and order leaps in and saves the day. ”
― Claire Ingrams, The Perils of 1925

“Memory is like a long, dark street, illuminated at intervals in a light so bright that it shows up every detail. And then one plunges into the dark stretch again.”
― Susan Hill, Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home