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'He didn't smile - he was from Yorkshire, after all - but in some inner chamber of his heart he was satisfied.'
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Just when you've squared up to the solemn realization that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you.
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'Jason squared his shoulders, drew the Sword of - I couldn't give a toss what it's supposed to be called, he said to himself, I shall call it Freckles - and took one step forward.'
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'I'm an archaeologist,' said Hildy. 'I dig up the past.'
The King raised an eyebrow. 'You mean you refresh old quarrels and keep alive old grievances? Surely not.'
'No, no,' said Hildy, 'I dig up ancient things buried in the earth. Things that belonged to people who lived hundreds of years ago.' As she said this, she began to feel uncomfortable. She had forgotton about the brooch.
'Do you really?' said the King. 'We used to call that grave-robbing.'
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Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.
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'I didn't find out she was actually the Queen of the Fey until some time later. Bit of a shock, but I think we could've made a go of it, if she hadn't been so dead set on wiping out the human race.'
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Between the town of Giles, to the north of the Tomkinson Range, and Forrest in the Nullarbor Plain, lies the Great Victorian Desert. It is hot, arid, desolate and merciless; and whatever the Creator had in mind when He made it that way, it most certainly wasn't human beings.
It's a really awful place to be if you've got toothache. - c. 3
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Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.
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'Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.'
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There's nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it's basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.
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'The King rose slowly to his feet and beckoned to the wizard, who had been sitting outside the circle of the firelight, apparently, trying to find a spell that would make a beer-can magically refill itself.'
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'Jeez, for a superior intelligence, you must be just plain dumb,' he said. - c. 19
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'— here we go, surfing the Net again, something done by humans and very gullible fish'
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'Talking to yourself is a sign of madness. Talking to yourself, dead, is class.' - c. 12
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Boamund scratches his head. Imagine a knight by Alma-Tadema who's somehow managed to fall off the picture and is wondering how to get back in without breaking the glass. - c. 1
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'You want the short version. Okay, then: shit happens. Does that answer all your question? Thought not. Now, if you shut your face and let me tell this my way, we might actually get somewhere. Thank you.' -the spokesclone, pg. 319
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'It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.'
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Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms—if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.
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'In fact, as they will be delighted to tell you, Taunton is no longer a one-horse town
these days, they have a bicycle as well.'
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'That's it?' Boamund said.
'Basically, yes,' the hermit replied. 'I've left out Helmut von Moltke and the Peace of Nikolsburg, and maybe I skated over the Benelux customs union a bit, but I think you've got the essentials there. Anything you're not sure about, you can look up in the book.' - c. 1
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After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
Tom Holt
Born:
September 13, 1961
(age 62)
Bio:
Thomas Charles Louis "Tom" Holt is a British novelist. In addition to fiction published under his own name, he writes fantasy under the pseudonym K. J. Parker.
Known for:
Devices and Desires (2005)
Colours in the Steel (1998)
The Escapement (2007)
Evil for Evil (2006)
The Belly of the Bow (1999)
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