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“A born detective never needs to be told that everybody lies – he or she has always known it.”
― Time and Tide
― Time and Tide
“Because I'm too old for tragedy. I like a nice happy ending too.”
― Point of Impact
― Point of Impact
“They were wise in their own skills, but most of them seemed to think that that made them wise in everything, which did not appear to be the case.”
― Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another
― Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another
“Everything, he decided, was almost unbearably sad. Life was wonderful, but nobody seemed to know what to do with it, and the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists.”
― Trial by Fury
― Trial by Fury
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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