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It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

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The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

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There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happil...more

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It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

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I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

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Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

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When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

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There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we wer...more

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Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb.

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NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, ho...more

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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it...more

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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

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The money… will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully.'Imps,' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. W...more

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Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our over...more

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...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already be...more