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'Do you want a cretin or a meddler?'
'Which is better for us?'
'Whoever gets the larger backhander.'
'We won't pay. We are going for probity.'
'Can't afford true justice, eh?'


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Words are real if other people think they understand their meaning.

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You're not bloody Aristophanes, and the people who are paying for tickets are not educated Athenians. We're acting for turnips who only come to talk to their cousins and fart. We have to give them a lot of action and low-level jokes, but you can leave all that to us on stage. We know what's required. Your job is to hone the basic framework and remember the simple motto: short speeches, short lines, short words.

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Lindsey Davis

Lindsey Davis

Born: August 21, 1949 (age 75)
Bio: Lindsey Davis is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of historical crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.
Known for:
  1. The Silver Pigs (1989)
  2. Shadows in Bronze (1990)
  3. The Ides of April (2013)
  4. Time to Depart (1995)
  5. The Iron Hand of Mars (1992)
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