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“They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overqu...”
“You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn.”
“Harry doesn't like people, you see." "I do like people," Harry said. "I just don't like being with them. Particularly when there's a lot of them at the same time.”
“With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Reven...”
“Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more.”
“A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom”
“No one can leave someone they have good sex with. They can try, but they always go back. We’re simple souls like that, aren’t we?”
“Sick is a relative concept. We’re all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symp...”
“Incidentally, I really agree with those who say that the capacity to forgive says something about the essential quality of a person. I'm the lowest grade.''I didn't mean to criticize you.''I promis...”
“...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes th...”
“Wilhelm’s smile reminded Harry of his father’s sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that’s where the things that made him smile were.”
“Did you know that darkness has a taste, Grandma?”
“no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.”
“Smoking’s banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body,” he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer.”
“Hurt? He'll never be hurt–he's made to other people.”
“Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think i could ever do that.”
“Can you feel it? The vibration? It’s the energy from everyone around us. It’s in the air. If you’re dying and you think no one can save you, just go out and stretch your arms into the air and absor...”
“What do we mean by ‘crazy’? What do we mean by ‘mad’? At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or...”
“Sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until you find it,” Harry answered. “It’s a methodology.”
“But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is...”
