Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World (2008)

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Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

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I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

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It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

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A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.

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The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

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If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

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