H.M. Forester Quotes

#1. A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?

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#2. Red pill or blue pill? If only it were that simple. You've been watching the wrong movies.

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#3. An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.

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#4. Their methods were especially crude and most of these former friends were now born again model citizens; lobotomized; or burnt out shells.

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#5. Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?

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#6. Smoking is suicide by instalments.

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#7. Yes, we are in a real pickle. Welcome to the pan-galactic insane asylum.

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#8. I? This is the very root of all evil.

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#9. There really is more to this world than meets the casual or untutored eye.

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#10. Can I tempt you? Go on, be a devil.

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#11. Is that a banana in your lunch box, or are you just pleased to see me?

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#12. All you had to do was crack up and beg to see the Governor; grovel at his feet and admit to being a dissident; heartily repent your sins, and volunteer for elective brain surgery.

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#13. There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

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#14. There are universal laws at work, even here. The Law of Attraction; the Law of Correspondence; and the Law of Karma. That is: like attracts like; as within, so without; and what goes around comes around.

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#15. Sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion.

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#16. Hey, lighten up ... This is only a game, you know.

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#17. Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.

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#18. We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.

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