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“There are no really new stories anymore.”

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Gillian Flynn is an American author known for her suspense novels. Her works are characterized by complex characters and tense plots, with her most famous novel being 'Gone Girl'. more

“A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.”

“It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.”

Different Illness Old Love

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them.”

Thinking Should Looks Beautiful Failing Lucky Appreciate Clouds Very Beautiful

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.”

Persons Built Prepared Heavyweights

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.”

International Locals Stalking Quirky International Business

Book:Love Over Scotland

Source: Love Over Scotland

“There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.”

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.”

Way Feels Hard Felt Easy Bits Moral Morality Opposites

Book:The Right Attitude to Rain

Source: The Right Attitude to Rain

“Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.”

Grows Talking Pumpkin

Book:The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.”

Doe Self Appreciate Pity Self Pity Pedantry

Book:Bertie Plays The Blues: 7

Source: Bertie Plays The Blues: 7

“There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.”

Lying Half Distinction Half Truth

Book:The Sunday Philosophy Club

Source: The Sunday Philosophy Club

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