“You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal”

—  Martin Amis , book Money

Source: Money

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Welsh novelist 1949

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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