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All the great conspiracies of history have been bizarre, usually because of the incompetence of the leading conspirators.

— Tom Holt Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988)

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The more he asserted it, the less they believed him, which is human nature for you.

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Nothing helps a lie succeed more than a generous helping of the truth.

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Like fish, accountants see things in a different way from people, and details which people find unimportant are their reason for existing.

Flying Dutch (1991)

There is no word for artist in the Mysian language; instead there’s a long-winded periphrasis that translates as man-who-deceives-others-into-giving-food-by-spoiling-bits-of-wood.

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Take anything to its logical conclusion and you’re likely to end up with the grotesque and the absurd.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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