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Tom Holt

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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.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Patience
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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Poetry
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Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.
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American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.
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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.
- Tom Holt
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I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.
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I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.
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Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
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The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.
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New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
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In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Jobs
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Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Choices
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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.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Lying
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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.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Nice
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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?
- Tom Holt
Collection: Giving
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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.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Beautiful
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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.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Stupid
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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.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Squares
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New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else
- Tom Holt
Collection: Technology
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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.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Girl
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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.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Hope
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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.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Home
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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
- Tom Holt
Collection: Patience
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At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
- Tom Holt
Collection: Ninety Nine
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I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either
- Tom Holt
Collection: Sunday
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Lawyers are predators in grey worsted
- Tom Holt
Collection: Predator
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I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year
- Tom Holt
Collection: Years
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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of
- Tom Holt
Collection: Funny
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There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.
- Tom Holt
Collection: Friendly
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American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot
- Tom Holt
Collection: Perfect

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