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"… Most of the words that airline staff used, or rather most of the sentences into which they were habitually arranged, had been worked so hard that they had died."

— Douglas Adams The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

You made us what you would not dare to be yourselves. Yet you will not acknowledge us.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

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