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I Talk Too Much: My Autobiography

by Francis Rossi

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The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

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Silent Scream (DI Kim Stone, #1) by Angela Marsons

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‘individual performance directive’, otherwise known as a good old-fashioned bollocking.

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AndrewP’s Quotes

“Das Leben ist zu kurz, um schlechten Wein zu trinken.
- Quoted from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man

tags: classic-literature, inspirational

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“Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping

tags: classism, hypocrisy, lower-class, peter-grant, rivers-of-london, social-criticism, social-problems, working-class

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“Holly had taken to calling us the rainbow coalition team, since we had one white female, and males of the Black, Asian, and Other categories. All we needed was a lesbian and a guy in a wheelchair and we were ready to salve even the biggest liberal's angst.”
― Larry Correia, Monster Hunter International

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“The word ‘bollocks’ is one of the most beautiful and flexible in the English language. It can be used to express emotional states ranging from ecstatic surprise to weary resignation in the face of inevitable disaster.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree

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“We all have our own scars. Let them be a blessing and not a curse.”
― Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

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