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"Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable."

— Brian O'Nolan The Third Policeman (1967)

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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.

At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

The Hair of the Dogma (1977)

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

The Best of Myles (1968)

"Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder."

The Dalkey archive (1964)

"Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country."

The Best of Myles (1968)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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