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This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can't even read. — Rainbow Rowell

Whatever path you take, there is a league of bad road. — Len Deighton

He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf. — Len Deighton

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse. — Len Deighton

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history. — Len Deighton

No one hated these ghost of mine, no one envied them, no one pestered them. Nor did anyone love them with the only love that matters. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

More money than the crooks at Enron and less taste than a drunk after a bottle of tequila — Maria Lima

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own. — James Franco

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. — Len Deighton

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words. — James Purdy

When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, Except for Washington D.C. — Len Deighton

It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean. — Karen Joy Fowler

I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way too
So I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you — David Levithan

That was one of the problems of marrying into wealth; there were no luxuries. — Len Deighton

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. — Len Deighton

Perhaps all fear is worse than reality, just as all hope is better than fulfilment. — Len Deighton

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war. — Len Deighton

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities. — Len Deighton

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change. — Len Deighton

When the end is lawful the means are also lawful, — Len Deighton

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness. — Len Deighton

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them. — Len Deighton

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen. — Len Deighton

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. — Len Deighton