Tom Holt Quotes

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• Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
• It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by…
• There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.
• At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
• Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing…
• Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of
• I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year
• New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything…
• I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either
• The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet
• Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem
• Lawyers are predators in grey worsted
• American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time…
• Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg…
• Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.
• Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.
• Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.
• Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.
• Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.
• After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

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