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Scotland Yard paid Swift and me a miserable pittance to be consultants and thought that entitled them to snap their fingers whenever they liked.
“Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.”
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“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
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“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”
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“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Lucky Jim
― Lucky Jim
“... but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with one eye closed.”
― The Eagle and the Raven
― The Eagle and the Raven
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