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David Mitchell
“Tough,” he enunciated, “titty!”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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François de La Rochefoucauld
“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
― Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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David Mitchell
“People are obscenities.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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“Marvel at the Two-Headed Schizoid Man! Gaze upon Madame Matryoshka and Her Pregnant Embryo! Gasp in Horror at the Real, Live Merican—but don’t poke your fingers into his cage!”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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