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I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.

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
Butler
Butlers
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Anything

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Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.
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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 bet, said Mulch, that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn. Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer. Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.
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Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?
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In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.
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Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already.
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