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1 " If you cannot stand the spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak. "
― Lawrence Block , The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1)
2 " coffee must be ‘hot as hell, black as sin, and sweet as love. "
3 " you have a better chance to get pregnant if you keep your knees way up and stay that way as long as you can. "
4 " You don’t sleep. You’re thirty-four years old and lost the power to sleep when you were eighteen. Is "
5 " Research is a joy, especially when one is not burdened with an excessive reverence for the truth. "
6 " If you are lying, you have built your lie on true foundations. "
7 " The Turks have dreary jails. "
8 " that would have hidden the decades of filth that had left their stamp upon the wooden floor. "
9 " When the window turned dark, it was presumably night; when it grew blue again, I guessed that morning had come. "
10 " Breakfast was always a slab of cold black toast and a cup of thick black coffee. Lunch and dinner were always the same—a tin plate piled with a suspicious pilaff, mostly rice with occasional bits of lamb and shreds of vegetable matter of indeterminate origin. "
11 " My crime seemed destined to remain a secret forever. "
12 " I don’t sleep, have not slept in sixteen years— "
13 " Your mother loves to perform fellatio upon syphilitic dogs. "
14 " Your mother spreads herself for camels. "
15 " When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it. "
