“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”
Source: Post Office (1971)
“Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.”
Non-series books, A Flash of Green
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