# Quote — Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller

> They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture.
>
> It could rain in a room this big.

- Author: [Hugh Laurie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hugh-laurie.md)
- Book: [The Gun Seller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hugh-laurie/the-gun-seller.md)
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> O'Neal had uttered three words: 'Conspiracy to murder.'
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> The correct word for me to repeat in an incredulous tone of voice would have been 'murder'; a very small, and psychiatrically disturbed, section of the population might have opted for the 'to'; but the one word out of the three I most definitely should not have chosen to repeat was 'conspiracy'.

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> This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

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