Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

David Mitchell
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  1. A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

  2. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

  3. I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

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