“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“one of the most famous split infinitives ... To boldly go”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“nothing furnishes a room like books”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“English should not stoop to embrace the lowest common denominator. Rather, society should step up and grant the language the respect it deserves.”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
Terry Fallis
Born place: in Toronto, Canada
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“I understand. It is a good thing I do understand, because that is the only reason you are getting a second chance with me. I am no man's consolation prize.”
― quote from Young, Only Once
“Her soul opened slowly and timidly to her kind, but her imagination rushed out to the beauties of the visible world; and the decaying majesty of Allfriars moved her strangely.”
― Edith Wharton, quote from The Buccaneers
“Age does not count. It’s what you know about football that matters.”
― David Peace, quote from The Damned Utd
“They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from Reamde
“American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese.”
― Ryū Murakami, quote from In the Miso Soup
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