“Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can’t follow what I’m saying? (Simi)”
Source: Dance with the Devil
“Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can’t have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don’t rate it.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5
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