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Nick Harkaway has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
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Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes…
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The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.
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The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as…
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A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes…
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Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.
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I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put…
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Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and…
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People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need…
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
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In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.
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ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch…
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small…
— Charles Lamb
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
— Jonathan Swift
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
— Samuel Johnson
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He talked with more claret than clarity
— Susan Ertz
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I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux…
— John Cleese
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He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.
— Samuel Johnson
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How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not…
— John Keats
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If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
— Moliere
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.…
— James Boswell
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Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were…
— John Keats
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I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put…
— Nick Harkaway
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