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A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.

Eoin Colfer

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Eoin Colfer
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 14
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Science Fiction Writer
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Wexford
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Museums
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(to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face!
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My bugs don't have bugs.
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Orion sniffed. Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby. This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.
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Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.
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It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?
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The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.
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Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl
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Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?
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If it looks like a Dwarf, and it smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf or a latrine wearing dungerees.
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A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.
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Don’t feel bad I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.
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I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room.
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I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.
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Yes. Because every family needs a laser for thier family jet.
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...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile. ...Where's all the loot? That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart. Artemis put two and two together and arrived at a very unpleasant four. You were here to rob me! No, I wasn't. How dare you?!
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I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.
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Anything else, Butler? The cosh, sir.
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