Ariana Franklin Quotes

• Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

  Ariana Franklin

  Men, Evil, Devil

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• Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

  Ariana Franklin

  Running, Strong, Lying

  Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.299, Penguin

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• the possession of power brings on madness.

  Ariana Franklin

  Power, Madness, Possession

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• The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

  Ariana Franklin

  Law, Civilization, Path

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• Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

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  Essentials, Awful, Today

  Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.384, Penguin

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• To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

  Ariana Franklin

  Heart, Gold, Craving

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• Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

  Ariana Franklin

  Evil, Insanity, Wickedness

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• Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

  Ariana Franklin

  Soul, Capacity, Doomed

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• Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

  Ariana Franklin

  Psychics, Would Be, Crowds

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• Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

  Ariana Franklin

  Firsts, Happy Endings, Crime

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• Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

  Ariana Franklin

  Names, Identity, Addresses

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• I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

  Ariana Franklin

  Yield, Bed, Admiration

  Ariana Franklin (2008). “The Serpent's Tale”, p.406, Penguin

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• The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

  Ariana Franklin

  Love, Beautiful, Art

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• Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

  Ariana Franklin

  Men, Pits, Paradise

  Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.90, Penguin

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• A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

  Ariana Franklin

  Daughter, Baby, Children

  Ariana Franklin (2008). “The Serpent's Tale”, p.43, Penguin

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• Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

  Ariana Franklin

  Taken, Ghost, Proof

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