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Bronson: (Looking down at unconscious bodyguard) You're a very bad man, Walker! Why do you go around doing things like this?

Walker: Because I want my money.

Bronson: $90,000?!? You smash open three of our operations, kill Resnick, break in here and threaten me, all for ninety-thousand? No, I don't buy that. What do you really want?

Walker: I really want my money.

-- Carrol...
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Peter was alone on the lagoon.

The rock was very small now; soon it would be submerged. Pale rays of light tiptoed across the waters; and by and by there was to be heard a sound at once the most musical and the most melancholy in the world: the mermaids calling to the moon.

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid...
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What's he then that says I play the villain?
When this advice is free I give and honest,
Probal to thinking and indeed the course
To win the Moor again? For 'tis most easy
The inclining Desdemona to subdue
In any honest suit: she's framed as fruitful
As the free elements. And then for her
To win the Moor were't to renounce his baptism,
All...
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It is part of misguided policy that our nation is geared to an arms economy, bred in artificially-induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability, our political leaders seemingly more afraid of peace than of war. -...
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And another way of explaining it is that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into.

-- Nick Hornby, "A Long Way Down"