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“If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.”
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Robert Rankin
#Tea Quotes
#Sugar Quotes
#Cubes Quotes
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“It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.”
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Robert Rankin
#Blessing Quotes
#Rose Quotes
#Joy Quotes
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“What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.”
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Robert Rankin
#Fashion Quotes
#Facts Quotes
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“I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.”
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Robert Rankin
#Writing Quotes
#Awkward Quotes
#Doe Quotes
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“As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as...”
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Robert Rankin
#Real Quotes
#Perfect Quotes
#Wish Quotes
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“Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually simpler than you think them to be. Things are never as difficult and complicated as folk believe. You'd be surprised just how straightforward and obvious things really are. The secret is in knowing how to look at them the right way.”
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Robert Rankin
Source : Robert Rankin (2011). “The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse: Eddie Bear”, p.129, Hachette UK
#Believe Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Knowing Quotes
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“Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.”
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Robert Rankin
#Kind Quotes
#Intimate Quotes
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“Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.”
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Robert Rankin
Source : Robert Rankin (2011). “The Gollancz eBook Collection (eBook): Eight Fantastic Novels by Robert Rankin”, p.155, Hachette UK
#Facts Quotes
#Drink Quotes
#Popularity Quotes
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“Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.”
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Robert Rankin
#Drinking Quotes
#Sober Quotes
#Theory Quotes
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“Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.' All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab.”
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Robert Rankin
#Said Quotes
#Call Me Quotes
#Dear Quotes
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“Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.”
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Robert Rankin
#Said Quotes
#Get Away Quotes
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“Because I'm a special gatekeeper. I'm the head gatekeeper. Because, although, as you can see, I'm only a head, I'm also the gatekeeper. Which makes me the head gatekeeper. Which makes me very special, don't you agree?”
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Robert Rankin
#Special Quotes
#Gatekeepers Quotes
#Agree Quotes
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“Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.”
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Robert Rankin
#Should Quotes
