

“The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour – that is, a sinful odour.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it.”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.”
― Vanity Fair
― Vanity Fair

“We are narrow thinkers, we are noisy thinkers, and it is very easy to improve upon us.”
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

“There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. ”
― The Thorn Birds
― The Thorn Birds
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