"To the world's most perfect woman. It was……" — Graeme Simsion
"To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error."
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25 Quotes by Graeme Simsion
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Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits…
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So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen…
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A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made…
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I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody,…
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What would you like?" "A skinny decaf latte." This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point…
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If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you…
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But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?
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I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of…
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I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that…
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I know this song!’ Rosie laughed. ‘If you didn’t, that’d be the final proof that you’re from Mars.
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You’re unbelievable,’ said Rosie. ‘Look at me when I’m talking.’ I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated.…
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Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an…
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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
— Dave Barry
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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