Alex Scarrow Quotes

#1. The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.

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#2. There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.

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#3. It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too obscure for them to recognise.

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#4. In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.

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#5. His dying mind conjured up one last, reassuring thought.
In the end, don't we all come from dust anyway? We come from dust... and we end as dust.
The oh-so-short passage in between is the bit we call 'life'.
Everything ends eventually.
Everything.

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#6. Was... That a "you've been a clever boy" kiss? Or... Uh...

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#7. She laughed. 'See? You can do philosophy!'
He rolled his eyes and shook his head. 'Don't insult me.

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#8. She hates that word. Nice is what you call ice cream, or a paper doily, or fluffy bunny rabbit print pattern.

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#9. Oh God, what is it with mankind? Never happy unless it's blowing someone up.

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#10. After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.

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#11. In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care ...

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#12. It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.
It sounded like a revolution.
It sounded like hope.

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#13. The loners are always trouble. You know that.

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#14. We all die eventually. But the one thing we can do is seek answers along the way.

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#15. She moans about everything anyway. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't with a bitch like her.

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#16. I sometimes wish I could "reboot",' said Sal. 'Empty my head and start over.

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#17. I'd love to give Jesus a Dictaphone or something, so we could play back what he actually said to some idiots speaking on his behalf today

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#18. Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge. We're like children casually playing with an atom bomb.

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#19. If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal.

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#20. It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)

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#21. We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

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#22. I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go ... please?

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#23. The Saracens surrendered to Richard. And he had every last one of them beheaded. There was a hill of heads, a hill that grew gradually out of the moat and spilled on to the plain.' Liam looked down at a potato bobbing in his soup and all of a sudden felt a little less hungry.

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