Magnus Flyte Quotes

#1. Rules of science." Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. "And what are those? We don't even know how this works." He pointed to his head.

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#2. How strange and frightening and intoxicating life could be.

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#3. Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace.

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#4. Prayer. That was what people did when there was nothing else left to do.

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#5. (You think you know suffering? What about life before dishwashers? Washing machines? Tampons? Vacuum cleaners? You have no idea. No idea!)

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#6. What do you know that you're not telling me?"
"I don't know what you know, so I don't know what you don't know.

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#7. Men were ridiculous, in all cultures and across time.

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#8. Sarah felt about great sex the way St. George felt about slaying dragons ...

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#9. They just didn't make them like that anymore. Nowadays she was lucky to get some mild flirtation from some leather-faced NRA lobbyist. Forget about doggy-style on an eighteenth-century canopied bed by a certified KGB agent who said things like beg for it my little Yankee poodle.

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#10. Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage.

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#11. The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.

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#12. Isn't it funny that only twenty years ago, they were down there cowering in terror that we trigger-happy, decadent, capitalist Americans would go nuclear on them any minute? Little did they know our secret weapon was Starbucks.

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#13. It wasn't enough to be alive. Everyone needed something to live for.
Or die for.

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#14. Dig your nails deep enough into the back of a Soviet, and eventually you'll find a Russian.

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#15. She hadn't really counted on having to measure pedagogic dick length with a whole tribe.

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#16. The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars drinking espresso and Prosecco.

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#17. Prague is a threshold."
"A threshold?"
"Yes. Between the life of good and ... the other."
Sarah thought of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "I'm not going to have to fight demons, am I?

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#18. Charlotte Yates loved humanity with all her heart, but she really had to draw the line at individuals. For the most part they were incredibly stupid, clumsy, selfish, and criminally shortsighted. Look, for instance, at who they voted for.

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#19. This place was just a pile of old stones. Pretty stones arranged in intriguing ways, but just old stones.
"And outdated wiring," her father would have added.

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#20. Charlotte Yates didn't especially care for music. All that abstract mooning about. Words, that was what moved people. A good play was worth a thousand symphonies.

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#21. History should be studied but not worshipped.

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#22. Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty, Sarah commented.

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#23. Prague. Praha. The name actually meant "threshold". Pollina had said the city was a portal between the life of the good and ... the other. A city of dark magic, Alessandro had called it.

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#24. Ludwig's enormous, awe-inspiring genius, his productivity, his prescient modernism were all contained in music. Beside that, the letters to the Immortal Beloved looked no more impressive to her than bathroom stall graffiti: L.V.B. luvs his I.B. Wishes she wuz here.

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#25. Sometimes it was just better to blow shit up.

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#26. Love makes people so stupid.

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