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“What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.”
― A Death of Innocence
― A Death of Innocence

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland

“It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.”
― The Prisoner of Zenda
― The Prisoner of Zenda

“Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was given to him ....”
― The Prisoner of Zenda
― The Prisoner of Zenda

“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
― Powder and Patch
― Powder and Patch

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