“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― The Mysterious Affair at Styles
― The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.”
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
“The point is there ain't no point.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“It's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
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