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Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.

Eoin Colfer

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Eoin Colfer
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Wexford
Accept
Listen
Accepting
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Stupid
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Goblin
Fowl

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I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.
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We lost the crickets, she said. Even you can't make that sound tough. ...I am Butler, he said with a straight-face. Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy.
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I have a lovely office at the back of my house it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.
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In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.
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Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers
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There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain.
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How did that go?’ he asked. ‘Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age?’ ‘Fabulous,’ said Artemis, voice dripping with sarcasm. ‘We’re planning a June wedding.
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Wait, said Butler. Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan. He squinted through the green dome. What is your plan, Artemis? All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.
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Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.
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Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?
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Me, Artemis blurted. I'm the nut. Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell. I'm the nut! Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.
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Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.
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I am not exuding anything, said Holly through gritted teeth. Orion tapped her shoulder. I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins.
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Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.
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I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
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Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for a couple of hours' usage of your frankly third-rate restaurant and perhaps find a friendless tree stump to listen to your woes?
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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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Mulch was not impressed. 'I'm not impressed,' he said.
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