Errors Quote by Nick Harkaway

“Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.” quote by Nick Harkaway — Download Open image

“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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“We were deluged together in the raw, unbalanced Stuff of the universe. Inevitable consequence: My own little reification. I was made flesh, and in the process taken from him. I was never supposed to be real. How terrifying to confide your every doubt to an imaginary companion, to bequeath to him every alternative, and then one day turn and see…

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“Her eyes are very bright. She loves senses, loves the world. He finds that…admirable, and a bit daunting. I am a mole. I am…

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“An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating.”

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If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

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“Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or trifle with me! I possess but one tooth, oh, yes, for the rest were buried long ago in the flesh of sinners.Behold my jaws, upper and lower in righteous, symmetrical poverty.Move not, man of clocks, and…

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“I can show him how to be the right kind of stupid.”

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“She has to admit privately that she may be mad. Although if so, it is a merciless, clear-sighted sort of madness and not at…

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“Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon's…

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No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are…

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“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying -- which was invariably that he thought XYZ was a terrific idea and he hoped it went very well for you -- while at the same time paying heed to the greasy, nauseous suspicion you had that, although…

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“Then he explained in a whisper that the plan was composed entirely of awesome. It was made and designed by the House of Awesome, from materials found in the deep awesome mines of Awesometania and it would be recorded in the Annals of Awesome - and nowhere else, because any other book would catch fire and explode from the awesome…

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“Yes. Edie Banister has gone postal. A very British sort of postal which does not involve shouting, but rather a sudden and total reverse…

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