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A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

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“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”
― Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal

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“You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

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“He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.”
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“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

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“...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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