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A moral coward, you see, is simply someone who has read the fine print on the back of his Birth Certificate and seen the little clause which says "You can't win."

— Kyril Bonfiglioli Something Nasty in the Woodshed (1976)

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Sleep slunk up like a black panther and sank its kindly fangs into what remained of the Mortdecai brain.

After You With The Pistol (1979)

Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.

Don't Point That Thing At Me (1972)

I have this heavy addiction to life and I'm told that the withdrawal symptoms are shocking.

After You With The Pistol (1979)

It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.

After You With The Pistol (1979)

To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal.

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