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“All in all, Varya felt much the same as she had in the restaurant of the Hotel Royale when the men had caught the scent of blood and run wild, entirely forgetting that she even existed - yet another proof that by his very nature man was closer to the animal world than woman, that the feral principle was more pronounced in man, and therefore the true variety of Homo Sapiens was indeed woman, the more advanced, subtle and complex being.”
― Boris Akunin, The Turkish Gambit

“The vegetable kingdom still remains one of the few which Napoleon has not yet conquered.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Uncle Bernac

“Freud said that laughter is the outward expression of the psyche. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play first house, Saturday night, Glasgow Empire.”
― Ken Dodd

“The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.”
― Philip Roth, The Anatomy Lesson