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I, Lucifer - pg 173
'You've surprised us,' he said. He's never quite grasped that conversation isn't actually the other person making some unattended-to noises while you think of the next bit of your monologue.
'Oh, I have have I? What were you thinking? Harrison Ford?'
'With the shortness of your attention span, we thought you'd be at middle-aged melancholy by now. And yet you've managed to . . . hold yourself, more or less, at adolescent egotism.'
'Don't underrate adolescent egotism, old stick. With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world - redundant, obviously, when one already does rule the world.'
'Oh, I have have I? What were you thinking? Harrison Ford?'
'With the shortness of your attention span, we thought you'd be at middle-aged melancholy by now. And yet you've managed to . . . hold yourself, more or less, at adolescent egotism.'
'Don't underrate adolescent egotism, old stick. With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world - redundant, obviously, when one already does rule the world.'
