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P.G. Wodehouse
“INTERVIEWER
Have you ever been envious of another writer?

WODEHOUSE
No, never. I’m really such a voracious reader that I’m only too grateful to get some stuff I can read.”
P.G. Wodehouse

“Explaining basic probability to a group of people can be best qualified as futile.”
Dan Szymborski

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
“Once, in the South Atlantic, I saw a whaler in the process of killing a female accompanied by one of her offspring. The harpooner, a red-bearded Irishman, kept putting harpoons into the whale. The intestines were hanging out of the mangled body of the huge animal, and nevertheless it continued to swim back and forth in the water made red by its blood, trying with its shattered body to shield the little whale. Since then, and the sight of that harpooner's freckled face as he laughed derisively, and of that poor creature, faithful to the end, I have believed in the existence of Satan as I believe in the existence of God.”
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Diary of a Man in Despair

“The regime's political strategy depends on planting landmines throughout society. But the mine doesn't explode if you place your leg on it - it explodes when you remove your leg from it. The regime planted the land mines, then placed our legs on them so that if the regime goes, society will explode.”
Anwar Al-Bunni

Jacob Grimm
“Etwas Besseres als den Tod findest du überall.”
The Brothers Grimm

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