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Too many new writers dress up old cliches.

If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable.

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability.

It was a violent place in which to discover a purpose. It was a good place to forge a friendship.

The clouds of night opened like ink blossoming in water.

Old age should burn and rave at close of day.

The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.

Doing the right thing for everyone eventually makes other people hate you. I want to be free to make a fool of myself.

I know how the world works. Business decisions are not made for the good of the people, but for the sake of profit, loyalty and expedience.

I have to go, I'm being asked to join a conga line through the Byzantine reliquaries.

She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.

The drawings are terribly good.

Leave the thought, it will surface when it's ready

Remembering was pointless; but forgetting somehow seemed immoral.

I suppose the worst thing isn't that there might be nothing after death, but that there might be nothing before it.

Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet

They'll be working through until it's done, so Janice has gone to KFC for a bargain bucket. They're dining al desko.

We're the police, we don't thump people.

For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.

Yes, he wanted to do the right thing, but perhaps this time the right thing was something different.

Life is short and filled with pain, and just when you start to finally get the hang of it, you drop dead.

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.

Three deaths - by snakebite, by explosion, by razor. What next? Death by hot air balloon? Cannon? Trident?

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

The fierce overhead strip lighting buzzed like the memory of a head injury.

The gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability.

There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.

What humanity wants most is crude sensation.
Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.

I wouldn't like to find out my GP was messing about with black magic. It would be like discovering that your bank manager was also a stand-up comic.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy

Like all dancers, so much of her body fat had been converted to muscle that she needed to eat regularly.