Tom Holt Quotes

• El té helado al estilo americano es la bebida perfecta para un día caluroso y soleado. En el Reino Unido nunca se ha puesto de moda, probablemente porque la última vez que tuvimos un día caluroso y soleado fue en 1957.

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  Perfect, Tea, Style

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• In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

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  Jobs, Worst Enemy, Competition

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• Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

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  Choices, Matter, Used

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• Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

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  Lying, Trying, Bathroom

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• Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy:
  (a) I think, therefore I am; or
  (b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but
  (c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife.

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  Thinking, Wife, Groups

  Tom Holt (2009). “Ye Gods!”, p.169, Hachette UK

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• Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.

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  Nice, Sick, Support

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• La suerte, como un coche ruso, generalmente sólo funciona si la empujas.

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  Car, Luck, Ifs

  Tom Holt (2002). “The Second Tom Holt Omnibus”

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• After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

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  Giving, Enquiry, Banging

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• It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Workout

  "Expecting Someone Taller". Book by Tom Holt, 1987.

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• Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

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  Beautiful, Believe, Love Is

  Tom Holt (2008). “In Your Dreams”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.

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  Stupid, Elephants, Worry

  Tom Holt (2012). “Djinn Rummy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

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  Squares, Play, Roots

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• La nueva tecnología es útil, pero es ineficiente y fea; sabe que estará obsoleta mañana a la hora de comer, así que no tiene ningún incentivo para ser otra cosa.

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  Technology, Incentives, Ugly

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• Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.

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  Girl, Heartbroken, Lost

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• There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of flowers into the hard earth; and so he decided, against his better judgment, to open his eyes and find out what was going to happen to him next.

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  Hope, Flower, Ambition

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• Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

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  Home, One Day, Evening

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• Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

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  Patience, Problem, Know How

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• At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

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  Ninety Nine, Race, Nuisance

  tom holt (1991). “flying dutch”

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• I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either

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  Sunday, Paper, Papers

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• Los abogados son depredadores en estambre gris

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  Predator, Lawyer, Grey

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• I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year

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  Years, Trying, Days Of The Year

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• Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

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  Funny, Childhood, Nasty

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• There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

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  Friendly, Cost, Reincarnation

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• American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot

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  Perfect, Tea, Style

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• The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

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  Definitions, Immortal, Died

  "Ye Gods!". Book by Tom Holt, 1992.

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