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Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

Eoin Colfer

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Eoin Colfer
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Wexford
Real
Life
Smoothly
Translate
Paper
Plans
Sometimes

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Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.
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Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.
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Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.
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Look! said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, Someone who cares!
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Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.
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The name's Bond. James Omar Bond.
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Knock yourself out... Or rather, don't.
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I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.
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Artemis: How long will it take you to prepare the time spell? N1 chewed his knuckle: About as long as it takes you to take your clothes off. Aaarrk, Artemis half choked.
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Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.
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What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.
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If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.
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A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl
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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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Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa, intoned Opal, finishing her chant. Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.
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A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.
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Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?
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Stay back, human. You don't know what you're dealing with.
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HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it.
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(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)
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