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then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
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His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.
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The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever
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Sorry?" said Dalziel turning. "What's that you said?" He cupped a large hand to a proportionally large ear. If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can't understand. Nothing's funny if it's repeated and explained."
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Twelve strangers," he interrupted, "twelve citizens picked off the street. In this world we're unfortunate to live in, and especially in this septic isle we live on,where squalid politicians conspire with the squalid press to feed a half-educated and wholly complacent public on a diet of meretricious trivia, I'm sure it would be possible to concoct enough evidence to persuade twelve strangers that Nelson Mandela was a cannibal."
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Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on
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Or an amicable pair," said Sam. "Sorry?" "In math, that's what we call two numbers each of which is equal to the sum of the divisors of the other. The smallest ones, 220 and 284, were regarded by the Pythagoreans as symbols of true friendship."
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Buses and trains both set you thinking, but not in the same way. Trains give you a rhythm, sent you into dreams, cut you off from reality. Buses were always stopping and starting; traffic, road-junctions, lights; and of course, bus-stops. The world you passed through was observable. And real. So was the world inside your head. Buses were good places to worry on.
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a politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence
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For the first time, she felt she'd laid a glove on Doll Trapp. 'Well, you really are full of surprises,' she said. 'Interesting theory. I'd be careful who you share it with. Now, where was I?' That
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Middlefield.
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tyro psychiatrist who provided the topic for a great deal of their conversation.
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Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.
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He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.
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