‘If Darwin were here I’d demand to know what theory of “natural selection” can possibly have produced something as ugly and useless as an oyster.’ (LU)
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… good people always hesitate. Stupid, stupid. (LU)
‘You could have helped.’
I’m helping by not helping.’ ‘You’re the one with experience of these creatures.’ ‘Children, Lobsang. They’re called children.’ (LU) Windsor Castle seemed to Luis from without an intimidating pile, an excrescence of centuries of wealth heaped upon a core of medieval brutality. (LU)
‘The difference is, sir, we are British.’ (LU)
‘You are smart enough to be extremely good, but not impossibly good. Even a very observant and highly sceptical witness can go away from the show believing he has seen through your tricks, and feeling pleasantly self-satisfied as a result, while understanding nothing of the reality of your abilities.’ (LU)
Fortune, he thought, follows the already fortunate. (LU)
‘We spent nine years training to be pioneers. We should have just downloaded a barn-dancing application.’ (LU)
‘I didn’t grow up despising mankind. I had to learn it.’ (LM)
‘Stupidity is a universal, it seems.’ (LM)
‘Oh, must you plant me before these pithecine buffoons, Jocasta?’ (LM)
‘It’s like people care more about their pride than about what’s correct, about the truth. What kind of sense does that make?’ (LM)
‘You look as blank as a chimp faced with a banana fitted with a zip.’ (LM)
‘We Russians have saying: “First five hundred years are worst.” Cheers.’ (LM)
He’d told her all about parallel processing, a concept she hadn’t heard of before her reincarnation. This meant running more than one task at once, or breaking down one big job into smaller jobs to be handled simultaneously. Not that she was particularly impressed. After all, she had been doing that all her life, thinking about making dinner while also blowing noses and teaching disturbed children how to hold a conversation and composing another angry letter to the bishop, with the occasional prayer thrown in the mix. Who didn’t have to work that way, every day of a busy life? (LM)
… Agnes was used to confused and disappointed old men, there were plenty of them in the hierarchy of the Church. (LM)
… Lobsang was trying to apprehend the whole world, the whole universe and trying to understand the role of the human race in that universe.
Despite all that, Lobsang appeared to be sane …. (LM) |
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